I don’t know if it is because I have been glued to a computer since I was six years old, but my handwriting and printing is terrible. Really terrible. I think my 5 year old son and I have pretty similar handwriting skills. Normally this is not a problem, except when I have to fill […]
Continue readingFor those of you that have been waiting for this, I just read that Doxie, the portable scanner that lets you scan straight to a bunch of different desktop and web apps, is now available on Amazon. I’ve written about Doxie in the past, so check that out if you want more information. Otherwise, have […]
Continue readingI’m as patriotic of a Canadian as there is, but there are some areas that my friends south of the border have us beat. Remote Check Deposit (or “cheque” as we call it) is one of them. Some banks in the United States allow consumers to scan their checks in using their desktop scanner or […]
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What is the holy grail of going paperless? There are a lot of tricks out there for keeping your documents organized based on their location or filename, but the holy grail is to be able to keep them organized based on the actual contents of the documents themselves. In other words, our computer does the […]
Continue readingSo you think your hard drive is on its last legs. You’re no computer genius, but you know enough to know that the sound your computer is making? It’s not supposed to sound like that. The first thing you need to do of course is backup your data, but how do you know how bad […]
Continue readingSometimes you just want a way to get text out of an image, whether it is a PDF you’ve downloaded, a document you want to scan, or even one from your digital camera or smartphone. There are a number of ways to do this, but one free way on Windows is to use TopOCR. As […]
Continue readingIt’s back to school time (at least in North America), and you know what that means: lots and lots of paper coming your way. Whether its documents from the school or our little angels’ artwork, it’s enough to stress any paperless system. Here’s a few things you can do to help cope: Make sure the […]
Continue readingThe Fujitsu ScanSnap‘s Automatic Document Feeder is great for taking a stack of documents and ripping through it, but what do you do when the document you want to scan has more pages than the feeder can hold? This is particularly an issue with the ScanSnap S1300, which can only hold 10 sheets at a […]
Continue readingYou may remember that a few months ago I did a how to make a $20 book scanner post. What I did not know then, but I do now thanks to awesome DocumentSnap reader Luke from Australia, is that there is a whole vibrant community around building and using DIY book scanners. The main site […]
Continue readingThe folks over at Lifehacker are running one of their famous High Five calls for submissions, this time about readers’ favorite OCR tools. OCR tools have been around for decades, but only recently have they been affordable (in many instances free) and accessible to people outside of government and corporate offices. This week we want […]
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