I’ve been meaning to point to this ever since I saw it on Hacker News, but I was finally motivated by DocumentSnap reader drew in this Batch OCR forum post.
Software developer Steve Losh wanted to go paper-free but couldn’t bring himself to drop $400 for a ScanSnap (fair enough), so he decided to put together his own workflow. He outlined it in this fantastic post: Going Paper-Free For $220.
Most of the tools he uses are familiar to long-time DocumentSnap readers such as a Doxie, JotNot, and of course my favorite, Hazel.
I wasn’t familiar with the OCR package that he uses, so I will have to dig into that one more.
All-in-all, great workflow and worth checking out if you are a Mac user. Even if you use a different scanner, you might pick up something useful.
Do you have any money saving tricks that you’ve used in your workflow? Let us know in the comments.
(Photo by Tony Crider)
