A while ago I picked up a Fujitsu ScanSnap S300M. In case you’re also thinking of getting one, I made a video of the “unboxing” where I take it out of the box and go through everything that is included in there. One note: at one point I pull out a USB cable and say […]
Continue readingThere was a discussion recently on Twitter over whether the ScanSnap was supported in Linux. Out of the box, none of the models come with Linux drivers – the S510 and S300 come with Windows software, and the S510 and S300M come with Mac OSX software. However, there is a project called SANE – Scanner […]
Continue readingA reader (hi Matt!) wrote in because he was having trouble getting his ScanSnap S500 to work seamlessly with Microsoft OneNote 2007. Previously what he had to do was scan to a folder, then go into OneNote and manually import the file in. Needless to say if you do this a lot, it gets to […]
Continue readingThis was referenced in my ScanSnap workflow series, but I thought I would provide it in its own article as well. I have a ScanSnap S300M and Adobe Acrobat, and was getting pretty tired of sitting there OCRing the PDFs manually in Acrobat. I came across this article by MacWorld which had a great Applescript […]
Continue readingAs much as we try to move towards a paperless workflow, there are going to be times where we just have to print something out. Lifehacker‘s Gina Trapani is doing double duty and writing for PC World (I didn’t know she was doing that). She wrote a great article called 20 Tech Habits To Improve […]
Continue readingI have to admit, I was not too familiar with the Mac Roundtable podcast until I saw people talking about it on Twitter. It caught my attention because the latest episode is all about going paperless, and the ScanSnap gets a lot of love in it. The podcast doesn’t just focus on the scanning aspect […]
Continue readingUpdate: This post is now slightly out of date as I now use the ScanSnap S1300. You may want to sign up for my free 7 part e-Course while will more comprehensively take you through the steps to go paperless. This is Part 2 of the My ScanSnap Setup And Workflow series. Make sure to […]
Continue readingUpdate: This post is now slightly out of date as I now use the ScanSnap S1300. You may want to sign up for my free 7 part e-Course while will more comprehensively take you through the steps to go paperless. This is Part 1 of the My ScanSnap Setup And Workflow series. Make sure to […]
Continue readingOnce you have your documents scanned you then of course need to put the PDFs somewhere. There are basically two schools of thought for document storage: storing in a folder structure (the Old Yahoo model), or dumping it all in one place and letting search take over (the Google model). Old Yahoo Model – Folders […]
Continue readingThere has been a lot of debate lately about “living in the cloud” and whether to keep data and applications locally or stored out on the Internet with backup services like Mozy or Carbonite. Which is better for backing up your documents? Online Backup Pros: The data is (hopefully!) encrypted Depending on the service you […]
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