Photo by jaaron In my line of work (that is to say, hanging out in my basement) I don’t get a lot of business cards. Since I’ve had a few questions recently about which software to use for business cards, I thought I’d throw it out to you guys to see if you have any […]
Continue readingMark Frauenfelder of MAKE and Boing Boing fame has a good post over on the Creditbloggers blog comparing his experience using both the ScanSnap S1500 and Shoeboxed to store his paper records digitally. Which is better? As usual it depends on you and your personality type and the time you have available, but I’ll […]
Continue readingIn the comments to my ScanSnap S1300 review post, user pendolino asked about the Fujitsu ScanSnap 1300‘s performance, not so much the scanner itself, but the software and OCR process afterwards. i would like to know a bit more about the very interesting sounding OCR feature that you say is bundled within the software (both […]
Continue readingI recently had a DocumentSnap reader send this question in, but since I am travelling at the moment I thought I’d open it up for the rest of you to chime in. Here is the question: I’m trying to find a solution for a paperless office….for customer contracts and other documents… We need to scan […]
Continue readingWe’ve written a few times here on DocumentSnap about Pixily, a document management and scanning service that will let you physically send your paper documents and upload them to their service, and then securely manage the scanned files online. We’ve just gotten word that they have changed their name to OfficeDrop. Why did they change […]
Continue readingAs many of you know, in 2008 I posted an Applescript that will use Adobe Acrobat to make PDFs searchable using Acrobat’s OCR capabilities. In the comments to that post, user nodis pointed out that adding 2 words to one of the lines can make the PDFs quite a bit smaller. In my testing, I […]
Continue readingSo you read all this great stuff about how the Fujitsu ScanSnap is awesome and creates searchable PDFs, and you’re on a Mac and want a portable scanner, so you drop the cash on a ScanSnap S300M. Then you get it home and find out – wait a minute – the S300M doesn’t come with […]
Continue readingChris Blatnick over at the Interface Matters blog has just done an absolutely epic post about his paper processing workflow. He has included a diagram in which he mapped out his process, and two great videos in which he explains and demonstrates the whole thing. So I recognized a problem: too much paper. That was […]
Continue readingWe have written about Pixily before. They’re a document scanning, digitization, and management service. They recently did an interesting blog post where they outline some of the other options they have for storing the data you send them. Normally, when you send services like this your documents, receipts, etc., they are stored online. However, when […]
Continue readingI’m sure you’ve been there… someone sends you a bunch of documents and you need to figure out which one is the latest, or what the changes are between them. There are a number of tools to do that, but if you just want to do a quick and dirty comparison without messing around with […]
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