Here are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 FileCenter Paperless Office Software For Windows FileCenter is a great Windows document management solution, if that is what you are looking for. Video: How To Go Paperless With A Digital Filing System (Starring Moi) Has it really been a year since I […]
Continue readingFollowing up on the genealogy theme we had recently, I came across a presentation by the folks at Fiddler Studios about using Evernote for genealogists. When you think about it, Evernote is a great tool for this. As they say on FamilySearch: Most family history enthusiasts can be found in their basement, in lighting similar […]
Continue readingThere are two questions that I get asked quite a bit: How can I tell if a PDF has been OCRed and made searchable? How can I extract text from a PDF? There are lots of software products that can do this sort of thing, but the way that I usually do both of these […]
Continue readingFor quite a while I have been eyeing the Canon imageFORMULA line of scanners, specifically the “Scan-tini” varieties.[1] Fortunately, Canon was awesome enough to send me a review unit of their newest scanner, the Canon imageFORMULA P–215. What’s In The Box? Canon P–215 in the Inside the box is the scanner, a Reference Guide, a […]
Continue readingHere are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 Reader Story: Closing Deals With PDF Search Great reader story from John Svirsky. How To Scan To The OmniFocus Inbox A “by request” post about how to scan and have the document go into the OmniFocus inbox. The funny thing is, at […]
Continue readingWhen I was at Macworld|iWorld this year, I wandered the exhibition floor looking for anything that might be interesting in the paperless space. I dropped by the always-busy Neat booth to see what was going on, and aside from demoing the Mac versions of NeatDesk and NeatReceipts, they were giving a sneak peak of their […]
Continue readingThis video on disabling Windows Snap is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. There is a feature of Windows 7 that people either love or hate: Snap. When you drag a window to the side or the top, Windows 7 will automatically resize […]
Continue readingI hear from a lot of readers that while they like the idea of having files synchronized across multiple computers and devices, they definitely do not like the idea of having their files stored unencrypted online. Usually in those cases I recommend a service called Wuala, but I have not had a chance to play […]
Continue readingHere are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 Use Hazel To Magically Process Downloaded PDFs Love me some Hazel. A great way to automate processing downloaded PDFs. Evernote Improves PDF Display I was so happy when Evernote made this change. A good way to control how PDF documents are displayed […]
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Some of you may know that in a previous job, I ran a support team for financial software product. Our product was web-based, and let’s just say that it had its share of issues. That was great for job security, but one side effect is that I received a lot of e-mail. I started out […]
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