So you think you have a big scanning project to do. Ever since reading the books Cryptonomicon and Enigma, I’ve been fascinated with the story of Bletchley Park, the site of British codebreaking activities during World War II. Of course like many important historic sites, it has suffered from years of financial neglect and has […]
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Whether you are wanting to create an executive summary for a document or you just want to get the gist before diving in, wouldn’t it be helpful if your computer could do the skimming for you? The Mac OS X operating system and Microsoft Word on Windows have little-known summarizing tools that can do a […]
Continue readingI get asked this question quite a bit: “What is the difference between the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 and the ScanSnap S1500 series?”, and then the logical followup: “Which should I buy?”. I decided to put together this blog post for me to point people to, so here is a rundown of the differences between the […]
Continue readingRecently I wrote about how to combine PDF files using Mac OSX, so today I’d like to give Windows the same treatment. Of course, there are a huge number of applications out there that will do this, and if I had any brains I’d point you to some expensive one that would get me a […]
Continue readingOnce upon a time there was a device called the Amazon Kindle, and people loved it. Really loved it. They wouldn’t stop talking about what a great device it was. Then a bunch of smaller manufacturers made cheap e-Readers that, let’s face it, were nowhere close to the Kindle. Then along came big bad Steve […]
Continue readingOnce you’ve done your huge scan-a-thon and gotten rid of most of your paper, what do you do with all the empty drawers? The folks over at the ScanSnap Community have a great list of 10 Fun and Creative Uses For Empty Filing Cabinets. I think my favorite is the healthy snack bar, but maybe […]
Continue readingRecently in the DocumentSnap newsletter I wrote about how I am going through a bunch of my old magazines, scanning in just the articles I want and recycling the rest. Here is how I am doing it: 1. Cut out the pages from the magazine 2. Scan the article with my Fujitsu ScanSnap directly into […]
Continue readingBeing in Canada I don’t really have this issue personally, but from what I understand, in the United States when you have to pay for medical services there is (and I believe this is the official term) a crapload of documents. Over on Unclutterer there is an interesting (to me anyways) forum thread on organizing […]
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There are some products that inspire love and devotion. Users sing their praises whenever they can. One such product is the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Another is Microsoft OneNote. Here’s how to scan to OneNote with the ScanSnap. Creating A Notebook OneNote uses the concept of Notebooks to store notes in. When you first install it there […]
Continue readingAs anyone who has read DocumentSnap for any length of time knows, I’m a bit of a fan of Evernote. Recently Brett Kelly at Bridging The Nerd Gap has released an 80+ page guide to Evernote called Evernote Essentials. At first you might think that Evernote is a pretty simple application (you put stuff in, […]
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