This is Day 1 in a 12 Post series: 12 Days Of Paperless Gifts. If you know someone who could use some help going paperless, or if you’d like to drop some hints, this series is for you. Don’t worry, the regular DocumentSnap tips will still be flowing.
If your special someone has a reasonable volume of paper, you’ll be doing them a favor by hooking them up with a proper document scanner.
These specialized tools can make it super-fast to digitize a stack of paper without the hassle of having to feed in or flip over pages.
Here are a few of my favorite options:
Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500
- Who is it for?: Windows or Mac users who have a lot of paper to scan, and want to go paperless quickly and easily.
- How fast is it?: 24 pages per minute, double sided.
- How much paper can it hold?: 50 pages.
- What software does it come with?:
ScanSnap Organizer (Windows),
Adobe Acrobat XI Standard (Windows),
ABBYY FineReader For ScanSnap (Both),
CardMinder (Both) - Anything else cool?: You can scan via wi-fi to a computer or mobile device. You can set up predefined profiles to quickly scan to any location or application you’d like.
- Where can I buy it?: Amazon
NeatConnect
- Who is it for?: Windows or Mac users who want to be able to scan, categorize, and export receipts.
- How fast is it?: 24 pages per minute, double sided.
- How much paper can it hold?: 50 pages.
- What software does it come with?:
NeatWorks. - Anything else cool?: You can scan wirelessly and directly to the cloud. You don’t need to scan to a computer. You can scan directly to Dropbox, Evernote, or Neat’s own NeatCloud service.
- Where can I buy it?: Neat.com
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