iCloud Drive is Apple’s online storage system. Individual apps can store data there, but you can use it to store your own documents and access them from any Mac, iOS, or Windows device. I was recently asked by an awesome DocumentSnap reader how to scan to iCloud Drive, so here’s how to do it. Option […]
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The latest Mac operating system, macOS 10.12 Sierra, is out on September 20. How does the Fujitsu ScanSnap work with it? Are there any ScanSnap Sierra issues? Whenever a new Mac OS is released there are often a few bumps here and there, but this time there are some warnings from Fujitsu. Update 10/06/2016: Fujitsu […]
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It’s no secret that Hazel by Noodlesoft is one of my favorite applications for keeping my paperless documents organized on the Mac. Today I felt the need to talk about an insanely useful feature introduced in version 4: the Hazel Preview Button. (Windows users, a Hazel-y tool for you is called DropIt, though that doesn’t […]
Continue readingDo you need to rename files on your Mac? If you have a bunch of files to rename, it can be a pain to do them one-by-one. Lucky for you, there’s a hidden feature of the Finder that lets you batch rename files – all built in to OS X. There are tools you can […]
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So OS X 10.11 El Capitan is out. Does the Fujitsu ScanSnap work with it? Whenever a new version of an operating system is released, I put up a post to collect experiences and resources for the ScanSnap. If you’ve made the El Capitan upgrade, please leave a comment below with how it is working […]
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Many scanners let you choose between scanning one-PDF-per-page or scanning all the pages into one big PDF. The scanner I use does. However, what happens when you have multiple PDFs that really should go in one document? How do you combine PDFs together? There are a million ways to do this, including some I have […]
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This blog post is nominally about a script to send Outlook 2011 for Mac emails to Evernote. In reality, it is a love letter to Justin Lancy aka Veritrope. Whenever I need to create an AppleScript, there is a familiar pattern: Start writing the script. Hit a roadblock. Find that Justin has already created a […]
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Many users very happily use the ScanSnap Quick Menu to do their scanning. It is certainly an easy way to scan. However, if you want to be more efficient with your scanning, you may want to look into setting up ScanSnap Profiles. A Profile is a pre-defined group of ScanSnap settings.[1]. Once you set them […]
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You have a multi-page PDF that you’d like to split into individual pages. Maybe you scanned a stack of paper intending to make it one PDF per sheet, but instead it went into one big PDF. Maybe you have some other reason. You can buy software to do this, but there are options to split […]
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There are different ways to search for files on the Mac. Usually I am searching my entire computer for a document, and for that I use Spotlight[1]. Occasionally I am in a Finder window and want to filter the displayed files, and for that I use the Search box in the top-right corner of the […]
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