I have posted about how the Fujitsu ScanSnap is ready for Lion, but what about some of the other popular scanners for going paperless? What is their status on Mac OS X Lion? Let’s find out. NeatDesk It looks like NeatDesk for Mac has been updated for Lion. You need to make sure you have […]
Continue readingIn the Spring, the CEO of GoDaddy upset a lot of people when he went on an elephant hunting trip. This reaction would have seemed pretty strange to the public back in 1871, when Queen Victoria’s second son Prince Alfred went on a 5 week long trip through Ceylon (aka Sri Lanka). This trip was […]
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 John Kendrick. Synchronize Everything One of my long-time goals was to become paperless in my […]
Continue readingOne thing I have always appreciated about Shawn Blanc‘s writing is that when he decides to write on a topic, he goes extremely in-depth. This has been especially true since he went full-time writing for his site. Recently he did a deep-dive into the topic of online backup. It is a great read, and he […]
Continue readingIf you use a Mac, I am sure that you know that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion has been released today via the Mac App Store. Similar to what I did with Snow Leopard and Windows 7, I thought I’d put this post up so that you can share your experiences with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. […]
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Do you have a PDF you want to split or extract pages from on your Mac? Back in 2010, I wrote a post about how to split a PDF on Mac OS X. I suggested two ways: dragging pages out of the PDF in Preview, or using Automator. Eddie over at Practically Efficient has an […]
Continue readingAs I’ve mentioned before, kids can generate a huge amount of paper. Nowhere is this more true than with activities such as mazes and coloring books. Being both a geek and a dad, I’ve always enjoyed Wired.com’s GeekDad blog, so I was especially happy to see James Floyd Kelly’s post on how to transfer kids’ […]
Continue readingMy dad is really into genealogy, and he often finds himself scanning old newspaper articles or other documents that contain faded text. Often he takes the OCR’ed text from these documents and pastes it into his genealogy program, so OCR accuracy is pretty important. The problem is, when the text is too light, his OCR […]
Continue readingIf you have a Fujitsu ScanSnap and are thinking of upgrading to Mac OSX Lion (10.7) which is due sometime in July, you will want to take steps to prepare yourself. The good news is that it appears that Fujitsu is on top of it (you may remember the ScanSnap Snow Leopard fun from last […]
Continue readingThis month in 2001 I became engaged to my wife, which was great for me but possibly not such a smart move for her. Another event that is almost as significant to the world is that in 2001, Fujitsu (or more specifically their subsidiary PFU) released the first ScanSnap, the fi-4110EOX. Since 2001, the ScanSnap […]
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