Some of you may know that in a previous job, I ran a support team for financial software product. Our product was web-based, and let’s just say that it had its share of issues. That was great for job security, but one side effect is that I received a lot of e-mail. I started out […]
Continue readingIf you have been reading DocumentSnap for any length of time, you will know that I am always going on about making your PDFs searchable. One of the first things I tell people to do when they are setting up their scanner is to enable the OCR option so that the contents of their PDF […]
Continue readingThis video on displaying all PDFs in Windows is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. Sometimes if you are looking for a document, as a last resort it can be helpful to just get a big list of all the documents on your […]
Continue readingThis video on OCR and Searchable PDFs is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. If you’ve been reading DocumentSnap for a while, you know that I am always going on about OCR, or Optical Character Recognition. I’m a big believer in creating searchable […]
Continue readingIf you are using a Mac, you may have decided to be security conscious and store your documents in an encrypted sparse bundle. This is a secure disk image that you create on your computer, and to simplify a great deal, you treat it like a drive and save documents and other files to it. […]
Continue readingSometimes, especially when you are a doing a big OCR project, you might want to find all the PDFs that are not searchable. That is to say, you want to find the PDFs that have not been OCR-ed. It turns out that this is not as easy as you might think. Here are a few […]
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