The Unofficial ScanSnap Setup Guide Fifth Edition Is Here

The short version of this blog post: the Fifth Edition of my Unofficial ScanSnap Setup Guide is now available. This is the Guide that I wanted when I was first going paperless with my ScanSnap. The long version: When I was going paperless, I was looking at different scanners and being a bit of a […]

The Freedmen’s Bureau Project Digitizes Almost 2 Million Slavery-Era Documents

Imagine how much work it would take to scan nearly 2 million Civil War-era documents related to newly-freed slaves. Now imagine the work involved to then go through those documents and painstakingly index the names and other information. This is exactly what the Freedmen’s Bureau Project did to help African Americans reconnect with their ancestors. […]

I Love The Hazel Preview Button

It’s no secret that Hazel by Noodlesoft is one of my favorite applications for keeping my paperless documents organized on the Mac. Today I felt the need to talk about an insanely useful feature introduced in version 4: the Hazel Preview Button. (Windows users, a Hazel-y tool for you is called DropIt, though that doesn’t […]

Scan A Book That You Don’t Want To Keep – A Clever DIY Solution

The fun thing about scanning paper books is that everyone has their own way to do scan a book. Some people set up cheap DIY book scanning setups, some invest in a special ScanSnap SV600, and a whole community has sprung up around book scanning. Awesome DocumentSnap reader Samuel in Sweden sent me a video […]

Some Paperless Encouragement And Creating A Private Cloud

From time to time I like to share paperless success stories that DocumentSnap readers share. This one is from a reader who would like to stay anonymous, so I’ll call him Mr. X. He wanted to share how he found success going paperless, and share how he created his own private cloud to store and […]

ExportNote: Evernote Export Tool That Keeps Your Organization Structure

One of the more popular posts on DocumentSnap (especially in light of recent price increases) is How To Export Your Data Out Of Evernote. Evernote gives you built-in ways to export to HTML or XML, but your organization structure isn’t preserved and the result is not nicely formatted. I always hoped that someone would write […]

Scan To Box With A ScanSnap – 2 Easy Options

If you’re not familar, Box.com is an online file storage service. It’s especially popular with businesses. Until recently, there haven’t been great options to scan to Box. You were more or less limited to “scan to a computer or network, then upload the files in a web browser”. Thankfully, Fujitsu has released its first update […]

Link Pages In OneNote – A Cool Little Trick

I came across this neat trick on Twitter to link pages in OneNote, and decided to share it here. If you’re typing in a note, you can type [[, then the title of a Page, then ]]. When you do that, it’ll automatically turn that text into a link to the other page. I tried […]

ActiveWords – Windows Text Expander And Launcher

Earlier this year, Steve Dotto, Mike Vardy and I did a webinar about text expansion tools. During the webinar, the creator of the Windows application ActiveWords (available here) told us that his solution is better than anything we were showing, so I decided to take a look and see what’s going on. I downloaded the […]

ScanSnap Included Software – iX500 Includes Nuance Power PDF

Buried in the big ScanSnap Cloud announcement is another interesting tidbit. There is a change to the ScanSnap included software: the ScanSnap iX500 now comes with Nuance Power PDF for Windows and Nuance PDF Converter for Mac. A ScanSnap Included Software History Lesson Once upon a time, there were Windows ScanSnaps (Black) and Mac ScanSnaps […]