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.
It’s hard to believe that it is year six of my 12 Days of Paperless Gifts series. It’s become a bit of a November/December tradition around DocumentSnap, and is always fun to do and to see which products are added and which ones drop off.
Of course, Day 1 has to start with desktop document scanners. They’re the cornerstone of a paperless process. (Remember – these gifts don’t have to be for other people. You can drop hints for yourself too.)
If your special someone has a lot of paper to deal with, you’ll be doing them a favor by hooking them up with a proper document scanner.
A good document scanner makes 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. This is the scanner that I use.
- How fast is it?: 25 pages per minute, double sided.
- How much paper can it hold?: 50 pages.
- What software does it come with?:
ScanSnap Organizer with ScanSnap Sync (Both),
Adobe Acrobat XI Standard (Windows),
ABBYY FineReader Express (Mac),
ABBYY FineReader For ScanSnap (Both),
CardMinder (Both),
ScanSnap Receipt (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.
- My review: You can read my review here.
- Where can I buy it?: Amazon
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NeatConnect
- Who is it for?: Windows or Mac users who want to be able to scan, categorize, and export documents and other receipts. People who need to scan without a computer.
- How fast is it?: 24 pages per minute, double sided.
- How much paper can it hold?: 50 pages.
- What software does it come with?:
Neat for Mac and Windows. - 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 or Amazon.
Epson DS–560
- Who is it for?: Windows or Mac users who want a TWAIN compliant scanner.
- How fast is it?: 26 pages per minute, double sided.
- How much paper can it hold?: 50 pages.
- What software does it come with?:
Epson Scan,
ABBYY FineReader,
NewSoft Presto! Bizcard, - Where can I buy it?: Amazon
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Note: If you buy any of these products using these links, you’ll be contributing to the DocumentSnap Festivus fund. Thanks!
