As most DocumentSnap readers know, I am all about the automation.
What you may not know is that I am an old-school Unix command line geek. I do most stuff in the GUI these days, but one of the reasons I love Mac OS X is it gives you the ability to drop down into its Unix underpinnings and get stuff done on the command line as our forefathers did.
For both of these reasons, I have been intrigued by a new tool by Joe Workman called simply Paperless.
It’s an extremely flexible and geeky command line paperless automation tool. Here’s what the Readme has to say:
Paperless is command-line tool that will help you automate your paperless workflow from your scanner to your e-filing cabinet. That could be the filesystem like Finder or apps like Evernote or DevonThink. Paperless analyzes your scanned documents and processes them through a set of user defined rules. These rules determine how and where to file the document. The entire process is entirely automated so that all you need to do is press the scan button on your scanner!
You can do all sorts of cool stuff like have it (via the tool of your choice) OCR, rename, and move your documents.
I am pretty invested in my Hazel rules, so I haven’t quite wrapped my head around when I will use this for myself, but I really look forward to playing with it. If you are similarly geeky, you might want to give it a look (best of all, it’s free!).
Joe has made a nice 11 minute video taking you through the features. It’s very impressive. You can view it below.
Any other command-line fans out there?
(Photo by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML)