Fujitsu has been making the ScanSnap line of document scanners for quite some time, and they’ve finally made a truly portable version: the ScanSnap S1100. Until now their most portable scanner has been the ScanSnap S1300, which while smaller than its desktop cousins the S1500 and S1500M, isn’t something you are just going to throw […]
Continue readingHappy New Year everyone! I hope you had a great one and are ready and roaring to go for 2011. As part of my annual review, I was looking back at my logs for sales through Amazon.com, and I thought you might be interested in the top 10 products that DocumentSnap readers bought through Amazon […]
Continue readingSince I recently posted about an iPhone document scanning app, it is only fair that I post about Android. Since I only have an iPhone and don’t actually have an Android advice, this won’t be from personal experience (I wish there was a cheap Android equivalent of an iPod Touch, by the way. Someone please […]
Continue readingI am sure most computer-savvy readers can relate to this: family gatherings involve good food, good times, and providing computer help. This Christmas was no exception; in between bites of lefse (the only Norwegian thing my family does), my dad, who uses a Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 (the precursor of the ScanSnap S1300) was having trouble […]
Continue readingYes, I know I probably should be promoting business card alternatives instead of business cards themselves, but as I have mentioned before, sometimes you just need to pick up some cards. To that end, I thought this post by online printing comparison company printingchoice was pretty clever. They ordered business cards from five popular online […]
Continue readingLongtime readers of my newsletter will remember the update that I wrote while sitting on a mall floor, waiting in line for an iPhone 4. I didn’t actually get an iPhone that day (missed the cutoff by 4 people, not that I am bitter), but I did eventually pick one up. Prior to having an […]
Continue readingIf you are a Mac OS X user, you will be familiar with Time Machine. If you are reading this site I would hope you are, as it is the super-easy backup solution that is built into the OS. The premise of Time Machine is you plug in an external hard drive, your Mac detects […]
Continue readingA very common request that I get here at DocumentSnap is to compare the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities of ABBYY FineReader with Adobe Acrobat. Why? Well, for starters, both of them come included with models the Fujitsu ScanSnap as well as other scanners. I decided to do a quick test comparing the OCR of […]
Continue readingOne of the most frequent complaints that users who try to use Evernote to manage their documents have is that it had no concept of “sub-notebooks”. Yes you can fake it by using tags, and you could make the argument that if you rely on search, you don’t need sub-notebooks anyways, but the fact remains: […]
Continue readingOnce you’ve started down the road to going paperless, one of the last reasons that you find yourself needing to print is when you need to sign something. You’ve probably been there: you receive a PDF form that you need to sign, you then print it out, sign it, scan it back in, and email […]
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