This one is for the Mac users out there. Anyone who has used Mac OSX, whether they know it or not, has probably used Preview (or as Mac-heads call it, Preview.app) at some point. Any time you double click on an image or PDF, it is probably Preview that is starting up to view it. […]
Continue readingWell, that didn’t take long. Just 13 days after my post about making PDFs searchable before uploading to Evernote, they went ahead and added that feature for Premium users yesterday. Starting now, if you are a premium user and you upload a PDF, Evernote will OCR it on the backend and make it searchable. If […]
Continue readingOne complaint that people have with the PDFs that Acrobat kicks out when doing OCR, either by doing it manually or via an Acrobat OCR Applescript, is that the files can get really big. There are a few solutions to this, but one of them is to change the PDF Output Style. The default that […]
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 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 readingRecently, Neatco was awesome enough to send me a review copy of the NeatDesk scanner with the bundled NeatWorks software. I liked both products (here’s the NeatDesk review and NeatWorks review), but since I already have a ScanSnap S300M here, and really liked Neatco’s software, I wanted to try using my ScanSnap as a scanner […]
Continue readingAs mentioned in my NeatDesk review, Neatco sent me a review copy of their NeatDesk For Mac scanner. I liked the scanner, but even more so I liked the NeatWorks software so I decided to do a separate review. This review is for the NeatWorks for Mac version. I don’t know to what extent the […]
Continue readingAs you may know, when I want to OCR a bunch of PDFs at once as part of my scanning workflow, I use an Applescript droplet to have Adobe Acrobat OCR the files. The other day I came across this blog post from Jonathan Bowman over at Adobe. He shows how to use a feature […]
Continue readingI have received a number of questions recently about the software that is included with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. For example, why does the ScanSnap come with both Abbyy FineReader and Adobe Acrobat? Aren’t they both for doing OCR? I suspect part of the reason that this question comes up is because of my posts about […]
Continue readingPhoto by iwantanimac In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I am generally a Mac user. I do have access to borrow a Windows ScanSnap, but my personal ScanSnap is a S300M. One thing I get asked quite a bit is which software should someone use to manage their PDFs? The ScanSnap comes with […]
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