I’ve been interacting with Tim Haughton (@documentmanager) quite a bit on Twitter lately, and he let me know that one of the most requested features of Home Document Manager has now been implemented – it now works with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Uses A Watch Folder Traditionally, Home Document Manager has worked with TWAIN scanners, which […]
Continue readingOne issue with the Fujitsu ScanSnap and OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard that I forgot to mention the other day is the ABBYY FineReader that comes bundled with it. When scanning with the version of Finereader that ships with the ScanSnap S510M and S1500M, you may get an error message like “File not created with ScanSnap”. […]
Continue readingUpdate Nov 13, 2009: The Snow Leopard fix has been released. See this for more information! Since Apple’s new version of OSX – 10.6 aka Snow Leopard is released today, I thought I’d make this post so that we can share our experience using the Fujitsu ScanSnap with it. I haven’t found any indication that […]
Continue readingOver at Fujitsu’s ScanSnap Community site, they have a helpful tutorial that walks you through how to create a scanned version of your signature for use in emails, documents, etc. First, sign a blank page. Then scan the page and save it to a JPEG (if you want more info on how to do this, […]
Continue readingYes, I do realize that this is the second ScanSnap Evernote post in a row. I just realized that I had somehow not blogged about this contest that Evernote is having in July where they are giving away 4 Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 scanners. Here is how to enter from their blog post: * Follow […]
Continue readingUpdate: Of course, a few days after I posted this, Evernote announced that they would make PDFs searchable for Premium users. So if you are not a Premium user, this will help. Otherwise, just upload away. One of the most popular posts on this site is on how to use the Fujitsu ScanSnap with Evernote. […]
Continue readingPhoto by sillygwailo One of the slightly annoying things about ScanSnap Manager is that in the UI, it doesn’t tell you what the image quality settings relate to in dots per inch (dpi) terms. If you for whatever reason need to be scanning at a certain dpi, it’s not immediately obvious which to choose. The […]
Continue readingPhoto by Editor B DocumentSnap reader Stuart wrote in because he was having problems scanning checks (or cheques, if you are in Canada or the UK) using his ScanSnap in to his bank’s interface for electronic deposit. I don’t know if this is specific to USAA or not, but here are the bank’s requirements for […]
Continue readingI personally don’t know a lot about the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management system, but I came across this video. If you are familiar with Alfresco, this is a quick video that shows how they use the ScanSnap S300 to scan documents such as invoices and medical recoreds right into Alfresco. Even if you don’t use […]
Continue readingHere’s another helpful video from Fujitsu. If you want to keep your scanner running well for the long haul, or if you are running into problems, before you replace your ScanSnap consumables it may be worth giving it a good clean. Here’s a video that Fujitsu has posted on the subject. According to the comments […]
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