Update Nov 13, 2009: The Snow Leopard fix has been released. See this for more information! According to this tweet by @ScanSnapIT (Fujitsu’s official ScanSnap Twitter account), the fix for the ScanSnap with OSX Snow Leopard issues will be available at the end of November. They give a link to go to to get emailed […]
Continue readingWell, Microsoft’s latest version of Windows, Windows 7, gets released today. Similar to what we did with OSX Snow Leopard, I thought I’d make a post so that we can share our experiences using the Fujitsu ScanSnap with it. I haven’t seen anything official from Fujitsu, but if I had to guess I would say […]
Continue readingThis tip comes from DocumentSnap reader A.S. (thanks!). If you want to add a password to a PDF document, that functionality is built in to Mac OSX’s Preview application. For Windows users, you can use a free program like PDFCreator to do something similar. Here we go: Load up your PDF in Preview Go to […]
Continue readingOK, this has been out for quite a while. I realize that. However, I just had laser eye surgery and have been down for the count for a little while so you’ll have to cut me some slack here. I still want to mention this because Dropbox is one of my favorite services, and their […]
Continue readingMany people think that there are two classes with respect to the Amazon Kindle: those who don’t understand it, and those who can’t live without it. However, there has been a third group that doesn’t get talked about as much: those who live outside of the US that covet it from afar. Well, now for […]
Continue readingThe ScanSnap Community site has an interesting article by Megan Fowler, the Marketing Communications Manager over at Fujitsu. It shows how she used the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M (though really any ScanSnap would do) and an online photobook site called Blurb to perserve her husband’s grandfather’s football legacy. After my husband’s grandfather passed away, his grandmother […]
Continue readingIf you are a user of Amazon Web Services’ S3 storage service, you have probably come across CloudBerry Explorer, which is a tool for managing your S3 data. Well, now the team from that product have taken the next step and have a new product in Beta called CloudBerry Online Backup which, not surprisingly, acts […]
Continue readingI am not a big home improvement TV watcher, mostly because I’m completely useless when it comes to anything handy (keep me away from a nail gun). However, I know a lot of people like it, so I thought I’d point out that our good friend the ScanSnap S1500 was featured on an episode of […]
Continue readingVia @JordanBrown on Twitter, I came across this document signing service called RightSignature. As much as we like to promote being paperless around here, there are some things that you just need paper for, and a signature is one of them. Or do you? RightSignature is a startup that is trying to tackle that space. […]
Continue readingWe all know that a desktop scanner like the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 or S1500M is good for scanning a whole bunch of documents, but how about scanning an actual book? Came across this video from Japan (I think) where the guy used a heavy duty paper cutter (like this one?) to cut the spine off […]
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