The ScanSnap Organizer program that comes with WIndows versions of the Fujitsu ScanSnap is pretty good, but it does have one big limitation that DocumentSnap reader Katherine from Austin Texas ran into: you can’t OCR or set keywords to PDF files that were not created by the ScanSnap scanner. I couldn’t find a built-in way […]
Continue readingThis post from is part of the paperless stories feature at DocumentSnap. Some stories are from readers that have successfully gone paperless, some are still going through it. Would you like to share your story too? Today’s featured DocumentSnap reader is Brandon Smith from Keizer, OR. You can find him on Twitter @brasmi. What problems […]
Continue readingA while ago I posted a roundup of popular PDF readers for the iPad, but as I didn’t (and still don’t) have the device, it was a little light on first hand experience. You can’t say the same for Kyle McDonald over at Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?. He has posted an incredibly thorough 4 part […]
Continue readingMost scanners these days come with an Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, program of some sort to make PDFs searchable. However, what if you don’t have an OCR program or you just want to do a quick and dirty file conversion without messing around with an application? A few DocumentSnap commenters have pointed out that […]
Continue readingSince I recently posted about an iPhone document scanning app, it is only fair that I post about Android. Since I only have an iPhone and don’t actually have an Android advice, this won’t be from personal experience (I wish there was a cheap Android equivalent of an iPod Touch, by the way. Someone please […]
Continue readingI am sure most computer-savvy readers can relate to this: family gatherings involve good food, good times, and providing computer help. This Christmas was no exception; in between bites of lefse (the only Norwegian thing my family does), my dad, who uses a Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 (the precursor of the ScanSnap S1300) was having trouble […]
Continue readingLongtime readers of my newsletter will remember the update that I wrote while sitting on a mall floor, waiting in line for an iPhone 4. I didn’t actually get an iPhone that day (missed the cutoff by 4 people, not that I am bitter), but I did eventually pick one up. Prior to having an […]
Continue readingA very common request that I get here at DocumentSnap is to compare the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities of ABBYY FineReader with Adobe Acrobat. Why? Well, for starters, both of them come included with models the Fujitsu ScanSnap as well as other scanners. I decided to do a quick test comparing the OCR of […]
Continue readingOne of the most frequent complaints that users who try to use Evernote to manage their documents have is that it had no concept of “sub-notebooks”. Yes you can fake it by using tags, and you could make the argument that if you rely on search, you don’t need sub-notebooks anyways, but the fact remains: […]
Continue readingOnce you’ve started down the road to going paperless, one of the last reasons that you find yourself needing to print is when you need to sign something. You’ve probably been there: you receive a PDF form that you need to sign, you then print it out, sign it, scan it back in, and email […]
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