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3 How To Create Searchable PDFs With The ScanSnap S300M

So 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 […]

5 Ask The Readers: Best Windows Document Software?

Photo 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 […]

0 MacHeist Giving Away DEVONthink

It looks like MacHeist is giving away a free copy of DEVONthink, an information manager. It is the Personal version of DEVONthink, not DEVONthink Pro Office. Here is more information from their site: This is a full license for DEVONthink Personal version 1.9.16 and can be upgraded to the upcoming version 2.0 for $20. Please […]

5 Document Storage: The Yahoo or Google Philosophy?

Once you have your documents scanned you then of course need to put the PDFs somewhere. There are basically two schools of thought for document storage: storing in a folder structure (the Old Yahoo model), or dumping it all in one place and letting search take over (the Google model). Old Yahoo Model – Folders […]

2 What Software Do I Need?

Possibly None It could be that you already have all the software that you need. If you have a ScanSnap or other scanner, it will come with software to scan and possibly even convert it to a searchable PDF. It might even come with some simple document management software. If you have an external backup […]