How To Scan To PaperPort With The ScanSnap

How To Scan To PaperPort With The ScanSnap

PaperPort 11For whatever reason, I have not written about Nuance PaperPort before. I will have to rectify that, but in the meantime I will answer a question that I receive quite a bit: “How do I use the Fujitsu ScanSnap to scan to PaperPort?”

There are a number of ways to do this, but I will take you through what I consider the easiest.

First, we want to create a PaperPort Profile in ScanSnap Manager, so right-click on the ScanSnap icon in the System Tray and choose Scan Button Settings.

ScanSnap Scan Button Settings
ScanSnap Scan Button Settings

Next, we want to create a new Profile, so go up to the Profile box on the right and at the bottom of the list, choose Add Profile… Give it a name like “PaperPort”, or whatever you’d like.

ScanSnap Add Profile
ScanSnap Add Profile

On the Application tab, if it is not already set, choose None (Scan To File).

Application Tab
Application Tab

On the Save tab, click on the Browse… button and navigate to the folder called My PaperPort Documents, which should be under your Documents or My Documents folder.

Save Tab
Save Tab

Set the rest of the Profile settings however you’d like, and then hit OK to save.

Now when you scan a document with this Profile, it will save it to My PaperPort Documents, which is a built-in folder for PaperPort.

In PaperPort itself, you can see that once you scan something, it will appear in that folder.

PaperPort
PaperPort

Do you use a different method to scan to PaperPort with your ScanSnap? Feel free to leave a comment and let us know.

About the Author

Brooks Duncan helps individuals and small businesses go paperless. He's been an accountant, a software developer, a manager in a very large corporation, and has run DocumentSnap since 2008. You can find Brooks on Twitter at @documentsnap or @brooksduncan. Thanks for stopping by.

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