Years ago I read article by blogger Darren Barefoot in which he relates how he likes to check out what the smart people are doing with respect to their tools. That article has always stuck with me, because I tend to follow the same approach. With that in mind, I’ve noticed that a number of […]
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What is the holy grail of going paperless? There are a lot of tricks out there for keeping your documents organized based on their location or filename, but the holy grail is to be able to keep them organized based on the actual contents of the documents themselves. In other words, our computer does the […]
Continue readingThe Fujitsu ScanSnap‘s Automatic Document Feeder is great for taking a stack of documents and ripping through it, but what do you do when the document you want to scan has more pages than the feeder can hold? This is particularly an issue with the ScanSnap S1300, which can only hold 10 sheets at a […]
Continue readingI get asked this question quite a bit: “What is the difference between the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 and the ScanSnap S1500 series?”, and then the logical followup: “Which should I buy?”. I decided to put together this blog post for me to point people to, so here is a rundown of the differences between the […]
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There are some products that inspire love and devotion. Users sing their praises whenever they can. One such product is the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Another is Microsoft OneNote. Here’s how to scan to OneNote with the ScanSnap. Creating A Notebook OneNote uses the concept of Notebooks to store notes in. When you first install it there […]
Continue readingI happen to think that the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 and S1300 are pretty good looking machines, as far as scanners go. But sometimes, I want more. Like for example, it would be nice to have a bird hand-painted on it. Well, it’s my lucky day. PFU, which is the division of Fujitsu in Japan that […]
Continue readingThere is nothing worse than sitting in a presentation and the presenter is using the same MS Office clip art that we have all seen 1000 times. A while ago I came across this tweet by Angelo van der Sijpt in which he said that all he needs to do a presentation was a Sharpie, […]
Continue readingAs many of you know, I’m a bit of a fan of the Fujitsu ScanSnap line of scanners. What you don’t know, however, is the real reason why I like them. It’s not the speed or ease of use or any of that boring stuff. Honestly, my fondness for them really comes down to one […]
Continue readingThe other day I was having a conversation with a consulting client, and we got to talking about things to do with your paper before you scan it. I’ve written a lot about scanning documents and what to do after you scan them, but I haven’t written too much about document preparation. One of the […]
Continue readingOne topic that has come up in the comments a number of times over the years here on DocumentSnap is using a Fujitsu ScanSnap over the network. Up until now I had never figured out a way to do that, but I recently came across some murmurings that implied that some people have had […]
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