As many of you know, in 2008 I posted an Applescript that will use Adobe Acrobat to make PDFs searchable using Acrobat’s OCR capabilities. In the comments to that post, user nodis pointed out that adding 2 words to one of the lines can make the PDFs quite a bit smaller. In my testing, I […]
Continue readingAs much of a paperless geek that I am, I normally wouldn’t sit and watch a video of someone scanning and shredding paper. However, I just wanted to point you to this YouTube video by user allenday. He’s got a really cool setup of a ScanSnap S300M, Adobe Acrobat, a Mac Mini, a wall-mounted Sharp […]
Continue readingSo you read all this great stuff about how the Fujitsu ScanSnap is awesome and creates searchable PDFs, and you’re on a Mac and want a portable scanner, so you drop the cash on a ScanSnap S300M. Then you get it home and find out – wait a minute – the S300M doesn’t come with […]
Continue readingOne common comment about Evernote is that the service is awesome, but people wish that it supported encryption of notes or notebooks. To address this, Evernote introduced the ability to encrypt text inside a note, but for those that want something a bit more comprehensive, here is a 2 part guide on how to encrypt […]
Continue readingAs we posted earlier, Windows 7 support wasn’t quite there for ScanSnap when the new operating system was released, and the Windows 7 Update for ScanSnap S1500 and S300 was released in December. Yesterday, Fujitsu sent out a bulletin that the updates for the ScanSnap S510 and S500 have been released. From the email: The […]
Continue readingSometimes, when you have to scan a large number of documents at once, the step of doing OCR (making the PDF searchable) after each document can really slow things down. It may be preferable to scan them all in and then OCR them all in one big shot. In the past I have posted about […]
Continue readingChris Blatnick over at the Interface Matters blog has just done an absolutely epic post about his paper processing workflow. He has included a diagram in which he mapped out his process, and two great videos in which he explains and demonstrates the whole thing. So I recognized a problem: too much paper. That was […]
Continue readingWe have written about Pixily before. They’re a document scanning, digitization, and management service. They recently did an interesting blog post where they outline some of the other options they have for storing the data you send them. Normally, when you send services like this your documents, receipts, etc., they are stored online. However, when […]
Continue readingI’m sure you’ve been there… someone sends you a bunch of documents and you need to figure out which one is the latest, or what the changes are between them. There are a number of tools to do that, but if you just want to do a quick and dirty comparison without messing around with […]
Continue readingWhen it rains it pours. When Fujitsu released their ScanSnap Update For Snow Leopard, the missing piece was the OCR provided by FineReader. They said it would be released by ABBYY soon, and as of today, it’s out. The update is for the ScanSnap S1500M and S510M. Click Here To Download The FineReader Snow Leopard […]
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