When I opened the Doxie One review unit box, my first thought was “I’m going to destroy my kids in DoxieBall”, but my second thought was “wow, this looks a lot like the Doxie Go”. Shipping in black instead of the Go’s white, the Doxie One has a similar mission: to scan documents without needing […]
Continue readingThis is Day 1 in a 12 Post series: 12 Days Of Paperless Gifts. If you know someone who could use some help going paperless, or if you deserve to treat yourself, this is the place. If you don’t, feel free to ignore this series. Normal DocumentSnap posts will still be coming! If you know […]
Continue readingWhen you’re researching scanners, sometimes you will see that this or that scanner does or does not support something called TWAIN. Good to know, but what on earth does that actually mean? It turns out that TWAIN does not actually stand for anything (ah, computer geeks), but you don’t care about that anyways. All you […]
Continue readingWindows fans can rejoice because the latest and greatest, Windows 8, is now out and available for purchase. As I do with every new major operating system release, I thought I would take this opportunity to get your feedback on how it is working with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Longtime DocumentSnap readers may remember that there […]
Continue readingI’ve been using scanners for a long time, but I’ve never given much thought to how they actually work. I guess I just assumed there was a tiny Fraggle in there taking a picture with a camera. It turns out that while the Fraggle part may have been wishful thinking, the camera part is sort-of […]
Continue readingI don’t know what it is, but the software that comes with flatbed or all-in-one scanners is almost universally terrible. Thankfully, there are usually ways around these monstrosities by using the scanning functions that are built-in to modern operating systems like Mac OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, and Windows 7. Over at the consistently-excellent MacDrifter, […]
Continue readingSo we know that the Fujitsu ScanSnap is ready for Mountain Lion, but what about some of the other popular document scanners? Let’s see how ready they are for OS X Mountain Lion a week after release. NeatDesk & NeatReceipts According to this forum thread, an update for Mountain Lion has not been released at […]
Continue readingWhenever you see a workflow post from me, you can translate that to “Brooks is lazy and wants to automate things as much as possible”. Such is the case with my Doxie Go. The scanner, paired with the included Wi-Fi card, does what I want it to do, but I wanted to streamline process a […]
Continue readingThere is nothing I like better than giving away cool stuff to DocumentSnap readers, and therefore I am super happy to announce another giveaway. The makers of the Doxie Go scanner have hooked me up with one Doxie Go scanner to give away to one lucky reader on Monday, July 16 at 12pm PST. This […]
Continue readingAs readers of the DocumentSnap newsletter know, I’ve been travelling this week so it has taken me a few days to post this. It looks like the Doxie Go has a nice new update. You can read my original Doxie Go review here, and here is what is new: You can now scan paper up […]
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