Once upon a time, Mac author Joe Kissell wrote an AppleScript that would allow you to automatically OCR PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat 8. Back in 2008, I turned that Acrobat OCR AppleScript into a Droplet and posted it to the site. Since the release of Acrobat X, I have received many many (have I […]
Continue reading
Do you have a PDF you want to split or extract pages from on your Mac? Back in 2010, I wrote a post about how to split a PDF on Mac OS X. I suggested two ways: dragging pages out of the PDF in Preview, or using Automator. Eddie over at Practically Efficient has an […]
Continue readingYou have long been able to share notebooks with Evernote, but the company has added the ability to share individual notes as a link. I have found this surprisingly handy. Here’s an example. I tend to scan magazine articles into Evernote that I think may be useful. Yesterday, a friend told me that he was […]
Continue readingI came across this tip thanks to last week’s Dropbox security debacle. I believe I picked it up from John Gruber. I have used Dropbox for a long time, but have somehow missed this feature. In the web interface, you can see a log of all changes that have been made to files in your […]
Continue readingAs I mentioned in my Lucion FileCenter review, FileCenter is a great document management program for Windows. One question I get quite a bit is “does FileCenter work with the Fujitsu ScanSnap?” The answer is yes, yes it does. In this post I’ll show you two ways that you can scan to FileCenter using your […]
Continue readingFile syncing services such as Dropbox or SugarSync are amazing. You create or edit a file on one computer, and behind the scenes the changes are reflected on your other computers. If you are a QuickBooks user, it may be tempting to use one of these file syncing services. After all, wouldn’t it be great […]
Continue readingContracts can be annoying things, especially for those of us that try to go paperless and/or do most of our work online. For starters, a surprising number of transactions happen with no written evidence. Whether it is because people don’t know what to put in them, they are challenging to dig up online, or they […]
Continue readingIf you use tags to organize your information in Evernote, it can be handy to periodically go through and find the notes that aren’t tagged. That way, you can make sure that you have tagged everything. By the way, this tip came from Don McAllister in the Evernote episode of ScreencastsOnline. I definitely recommend checking […]
Continue readingI thought I’d carry on the theme of the cloud from last week. In his fantastic interview for the Paperless Document Organization Guide, entrepreneur Kyle Durand mentioned that his team uses Box.net extensively, and part of the reason is because of the access controls that it provides. I have heard lately that quite a few […]
Continue readingBy now you know that if you are going to be going paperless, backing up your documents is critically important. At the very least I recommend having a local backup on an external hard drive, but ideally you should have at least two backups: one local, and one offsite. For offsite backup, using an online […]
Continue reading