This is a guest post from Alex Satrapa, a software engineer and Paperless Document Organization Guide interviewee. Through DocumentSnap you’ve been introduced to the Paperless Workflow, which relates to organising documents. You may also have been introduced to the Getting Things Done system, which relates to taking action. The two can be used very effectively […]
Continue readingA month ago, I posted about how to use Hazel to process downloaded PDF files. It was getting pretty technical, so I decided to end it before taking it one step further: how to use Hazel to apply OpenMeta tags to the files. Both in the comments and in my email, there have been a […]
Continue readingAs I have mentioned earlier, the question of “what do I do with my files once I have scanned them?” comes up quite a bit. If you use Windows, it can be hard to decide which paperless office software package to use (or if you even need one). In a strange role reversal, a client […]
Continue readingYou know how sometimes you come across a tip that is so clever you are both happy to have learned it and annoyed that you didn’t think of it yourself at the same time? That’s how I felt sitting in Katie Floyd’s Going Paperless presentation at Macworld 2011 (more on my Macworld roundup here). It […]
Continue readingMost scanners these days come with an Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, program of some sort to make PDFs searchable. However, what if you don’t have an OCR program or you just want to do a quick and dirty file conversion without messing around with an application? A few DocumentSnap commenters have pointed out that […]
Continue readingI am sure most computer-savvy readers can relate to this: family gatherings involve good food, good times, and providing computer help. This Christmas was no exception; in between bites of lefse (the only Norwegian thing my family does), my dad, who uses a Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 (the precursor of the ScanSnap S1300) was having trouble […]
Continue readingA very common request that I get here at DocumentSnap is to compare the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities of ABBYY FineReader with Adobe Acrobat. Why? Well, for starters, both of them come included with models the Fujitsu ScanSnap as well as other scanners. I decided to do a quick test comparing the OCR of […]
Continue readingI’ve mentioned Shoeboxed quite a few times here on DocumentSnap as a good way to handle receipts and business cards if you don’t have the time or the equipment to do the scanning yourself. Basically how it works is you take your receipts, business cards, and other documents and put them into a pre-paid (usually- […]
Continue readingSometimes rather than creating new PDF files every time, you want to scan to an existing document. Over on the ScanSnap Community, they’ve posted a helpful video showing how to use Adobe Acrobat (which comes with the ScanSnap S1500) to scan to Acrobat and then add the pages to an existing document. The video is […]
Continue readingThe other day I posted an Applescript to OCR documents using PDFPen. In the comments, awesome DocumentSnap reader Josh requested that it be done as a Hazel rule instead. Given that my love for Hazel is well documented, I am happy to oblige. I created a folder and then created the following Hazel rule to […]
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