It’s time for the yearly DocumentSnap tradition. A look back at which DocumentSnap paperless articles were the most popular in 2016. If others are interested in these topics, perhaps you will be too. The most popular paperless articles from 2016: Convert Excel To Google Sheets – Here's How Fix For ScanSnap Blinking Blue Light ScanSnap […]
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Update 1/23/2017: The Sierra 10.12.3 Update seems to have fixed the issue. If you haven’t already, it’s highly suggested that you update. If you have updated to macOS Sierra 10.12.2 and use Preview to manipulate scanned PDFs, watch out. There seems to be a bug and the OCR text layer can disappear. I’ve replicated this […]
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I’ve used Doxie scanners since 2011, and I’ve always liked them. They’re simple to use, portable, and have friendly, functional software. Older models did have some limitations though, and the new Doxie Q is the company’s attempt to take the product line to the next level. When I saw the announcement email for the Doxie […]
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I have nothing against Dropbox, but when I am using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc.) I find it annoying to have the Dropbox icon floating there on the right of my window. It’s called the Dropbox badge, and I am sure it is useful for some people but not for me. Here’s how to disable […]
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Security is a big concern people have with going paperless, and that’s why I wrote my Paperless Security Guide. I’m happy to release the Second Edition of the Guide today. In my opinion, making sure that your electronic documents are safe and secure is the most important part of going paperless. How you scan is […]
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Let’s say for whatever reason ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) you want to store your data in the cloud, but you don’t want it stored in the United States. More specifically you want to (or need to!) store it in Canada. There are Canadian cloud services that will let you do that. Canadian Cloud Sync Service If […]
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In the past few months I’ve been flooded with emails from people looking to migrate away from Neat Desktop for their receipts and document scanning and organization. When you get one or two emails on a subject you assume it’s a coincidence. When it becomes dozens of messages, it’s time to see what is going […]
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Over time, many of us find that we’re paying for multiple cloud services that do more or less the same thing. This can easily happen in the Apple ecosystem – you can be paying for Dropbox, Box, or another cloud storage service and then also throw Apple some money every month to expand iCloud storage […]
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iCloud Drive is Apple’s online storage system. Individual apps can store data there, but you can use it to store your own documents and access them from any Mac, iOS, or Windows device. I was recently asked by an awesome DocumentSnap reader how to scan to iCloud Drive, so here’s how to do it. Option […]
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The latest Mac operating system, macOS 10.12 Sierra, is out on September 20. How does the Fujitsu ScanSnap work with it? Are there any ScanSnap Sierra issues? Whenever a new Mac OS is released there are often a few bumps here and there, but this time there are some warnings from Fujitsu. Update 10/06/2016: Fujitsu […]
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