How the heck do you go about choosing a scanner? This little video takes you through what I consider to be the five key criteria: Platform Bundled Software TWAIN Paper Volume Scanner Settings View the video below, or click here to watch it on YouTube. If you are able to, I recommend that you watch […]
Continue readingNormally, I try not to write about services that I have not personally used. Before writing about something on DocumentSnap, I try to put it through its paces and do a walkthrough of the functionality. However, sometimes there is a service where even though I can’t actually try it, word of mouth makes it impossible […]
Continue readingHere are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 How Do You Track Payable Paperless Bills? One of the fears that people have when switching to paperless billing is that they’ll miss making a payment and… that happened to me. Some good suggestions in the commends. Avoid Scanner Rage – Prepare […]
Continue readingAwesome DocumentSnap reader Jody asked the following question: Hi, I have been scanning my business and personal docs for years using a Xerox Documate 252; love it! Only problem is receipts on that slick paper jam the machine, so I have to tape them to a piece of paper. Was hoping I could find a […]
Continue readingWhen I am working on a project or have a group of files that I would like to have a comprehensive view of, I like to create a Smart Folder on my Mac. This is particularly useful when you use a consistent, descriptive naming convention for your paperless documents. This video shows you how to […]
Continue readingI have written before about how a Kindle can be a good device for going paperless. After all, if you are a reader, you might already have a Kindle with you, and it is a small and lightweight PDF viewer for those documents that you want to have on-the-go. You have always been able to […]
Continue readingHere are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 Announcing the DocumentSnap Paperless Forum Did you know that there is a DocumentSnap Forum? Well now you do. What Do The Fujitsu ScanSnap Compression Settings Do? Nothing like a little settings experimentation. 2010 What Is XPS And Why Should You Care? Does […]
Continue readingThis is a guest post from Lauren Rothlisberger, the author of Evernote for Moms. We just celebrated Mother’s Day and since I have young kids I was lucky enough to get lots of school-made gifts sent home. My five year old put that her favorite thing I do for her is “let her watch a […]
Continue readingIf you are using Evernote to go paperless, you will want to know how to get your documents out when you need them. The latest version of the Mac client has an awesome new feature: the ability to save attachments to a folder. You can do this for an individual note, a group of notes, […]
Continue readingYou almost certainly have heard that Google has finally released their long-rumored file storage service, Google Drive. The service does a lot of Dropbox-y things, but I thought I would focus on one of the advertised features that is relevant to going paperless: the ability to OCR uploaded documents. Note that this is not a […]
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