Making your PDF documents searchable is great, but sometimes it can slow things down. One way to speed things up is to scan first and then OCR afterwards. This is referred to as “batch OCR”. If you have a ScanSnap and a Mac, you can do this using the ABBYY FineReader software that comes with […]
Continue readingAs I mentioned in my MacSparky home screen interview, I have had an elusive quest to be able to save e-mails to PDF on the iPhone or iPad. I was almost there with Save2PDF, but iOS5 killed that. So far, I have settled on a workflow using an app called Printopia that works very well. […]
Continue readingHere are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 Reader Story: Automating Document Processing Great reader story by Tom Cook. Papers Of The US War Department The AP department was giving George Washington grief about his expense claim, too. 2010 Creditbloggers Compares Shoeboxed With The ScanSnap Comparing using Shoeboxed and the […]
Continue readingA question I get asked all the time is “what is the best way to organize Evernote?” If you’ve been reading my stuff for any length of time, you’ll know that there is no such thing as a “best way”, but it can be helpful to see how others do it. I came across this […]
Continue readingWhen you receive a PDF attachment via email, or view a PDF on the web, what do you do with it? This video shows how you can open and work with almost any type of file with any supporting app on the iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. View the video below, or click here to […]
Continue readingLast year, in the Evernote LinkedIn group, I noticed that there was a very enthusiastic and helpful contributor. Whenever someone had a question, he would jump in and share his experience or provide suggestions. His name is Daniel Gold, and when I found out that he was releasing an eBook last fall, I dropped the […]
Continue readingHere are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 Introducing the Paperless Document Organization Guide Wow, I didn’t realize that it has been a year since the release of the Paperless Document Organization Guide! Thanks to everyone who has purchased it so far. Sharing Links To Files In Dropbox Outside Of […]
Continue readingThis post is part of the paperless stories feature at DocumentSnap. Some stories are from readers that have successfully gone paperless, some are still going through it. Would you like to share your story too? Today’s featured DocumentSnap reader is Lee Chinshue Coello from Puerto Rico. She can be found at http://becomingunencumbered.com/. What problems were […]
Continue readingThe good and the bad thing about tagging documents on the Mac is that there are a bunch of different ways to do it. If you want to get into tagging, I always recommend that you use software that uses the OpenMeta standard. That way, different applications can all access the same tags. A free […]
Continue readingFor whatever reason, I have not written about Nuance PaperPort before. I will have to rectify that, but in the meantime I will answer a question that I receive quite a bit: “How do I use the Fujitsu ScanSnap to scan to PaperPort?” There are a number of ways to do this, but I will […]
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