In honor of the fact that I am writing this while at Macworld Expo, I thought I would point out an article from Macworld’s website. DocumentSnap reader Brooke (a name that doesn’t at all bring back painful childhood taunting memories) pointed out this article: Which online backup service is right for you?. If you’re thinking […]
Continue readingDo you have questions about going paperless? Judging by the emails that I receive, a number of readers have questions: Which scanner should I choose? Did I make the right choice? What do I do with all my files once they are scanned? How do I keep them safe and secure? If you want to […]
Continue readingThe ScanSnap Organizer program that comes with WIndows versions of the Fujitsu ScanSnap is pretty good, but it does have one big limitation that DocumentSnap reader Katherine from Austin Texas ran into: you can’t OCR or set keywords to PDF files that were not created by the ScanSnap scanner. I couldn’t find a built-in way […]
Continue readingEven though the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 was released back on January 5 (see here for my ScanSnap S1100 review), up until this point it was only available online through Fujitsu’s store. Nothing against Fujitsu’s store at all, but a lot of people were asking me when it would be sold by Amazon.com so that it […]
Continue readingI am quite possibly the last person who should be writing about higher education, but I find the ProfHacker blog on The Chronicle of Higher Education really interesting. They write about productivity and technology from a different angle, which I like. It doesn’t hurt that most of the writers are professors, associate professors, or assistant […]
Continue readingThis post from 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 Brandon Smith from Keizer, OR. You can find him on Twitter @brasmi. What problems […]
Continue readingSometimes, especially when you are a doing a big OCR project, you might want to find all the PDFs that are not searchable. That is to say, you want to find the PDFs that have not been OCR-ed. It turns out that this is not as easy as you might think. Here are a few […]
Continue readingA while ago I posted a roundup of popular PDF readers for the iPad, but as I didn’t (and still don’t) have the device, it was a little light on first hand experience. You can’t say the same for Kyle McDonald over at Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?. He has posted an incredibly thorough 4 part […]
Continue readingMost scanners these days come with an Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, program of some sort to make PDFs searchable. However, what if you don’t have an OCR program or you just want to do a quick and dirty file conversion without messing around with an application? A few DocumentSnap commenters have pointed out that […]
Continue readingIn 2010, I ran two reader surveys: one for this blog and one for the newsletter. By far the most common request from all of you is that you’d like to hear how other people have been going paperless and what obstacles they’ve overcome. There is nothing quite like getting ideas from others who are […]
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