I personally don’t know a lot about the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management system, but I came across this video. If you are familiar with Alfresco, this is a quick video that shows how they use the ScanSnap S300 to scan documents such as invoices and medical recoreds right into Alfresco. Even if you don’t use […]
Continue readingHere’s another helpful video from Fujitsu. If you want to keep your scanner running well for the long haul, or if you are running into problems, before you replace your ScanSnap consumables it may be worth giving it a good clean. Here’s a video that Fujitsu has posted on the subject. According to the comments […]
Continue readingRecently, Neatco was awesome enough to send me a review copy of the NeatDesk scanner with the bundled NeatWorks software. I liked both products (here’s the NeatDesk review and NeatWorks review), but since I already have a ScanSnap S300M here, and really liked Neatco’s software, I wanted to try using my ScanSnap as a scanner […]
Continue readingAs mentioned in my NeatDesk review, Neatco sent me a review copy of their NeatDesk For Mac scanner. I liked the scanner, but even more so I liked the NeatWorks software so I decided to do a separate review. This review is for the NeatWorks for Mac version. I don’t know to what extent the […]
Continue readingI just got back from a quick road trip to Portland (love Powell’s), and I had a nice surprise waiting- a review copy of the NeatDesk scanner from Neatco. There is a Mac and Windows version, and I will be reviewing the Mac version. I’ve gotten a number of requests from readers asking me to […]
Continue readingSome time ago, I wrote an article called Paper Misfeed Problems With Your ScanSnap? It Might Be Your Consumables. To go along with that, Fujitsu has posted a video stepping you through the process. So, if you need to replace your pad assembly or your pick roller, this should help. It’s great to see companies […]
Continue readingMany of you might be familiar with Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week. He has talked about getting a Fujitsu ScanSnap before, but the other day on Twitter he ran into a problem: Here is the error he was getting: I have to say, the solution he came up with isn’t one I […]
Continue readingAs you may know, when I want to OCR a bunch of PDFs at once as part of my scanning workflow, I use an Applescript droplet to have Adobe Acrobat OCR the files. The other day I came across this blog post from Jonathan Bowman over at Adobe. He shows how to use a feature […]
Continue readingPhoto by technicool Recently, Om Malik wrote a post called The Ugly Truth About Broadband: Upload Speeds. The article is about slow upload speeds in general – you can have the fastest download speeds in the world, but for many tasks that involve uploading, even our broadband is excruciatingly slow. One of the things Om […]
Continue readingI have received a number of questions recently about the software that is included with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. For example, why does the ScanSnap come with both Abbyy FineReader and Adobe Acrobat? Aren’t they both for doing OCR? I suspect part of the reason that this question comes up is because of my posts about […]
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