File this post under the “I will probably regret posting this” category. I had a tip from DocumentSnap reader Hamad that was too helpful not to share. Remember back in November 2009, Fujitsu had to release an update for Abbyy FineReader because it was having problems with Mac OSX Snow Leopard? According to the website, […]
Continue readingAs many of you know, in 2008 I posted an Applescript that will use Adobe Acrobat to make PDFs searchable using Acrobat’s OCR capabilities. In the comments to that post, user nodis pointed out that adding 2 words to one of the lines can make the PDFs quite a bit smaller. In my testing, I […]
Continue readingSo 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 […]
Continue readingWhen it rains it pours. When Fujitsu released their ScanSnap Update For Snow Leopard, the missing piece was the OCR provided by FineReader. They said it would be released by ABBYY soon, and as of today, it’s out. The update is for the ScanSnap S1500M and S510M. Click Here To Download The FineReader Snow Leopard […]
Continue readingJust got notified from Fujitsu so I am posting now. I haven’t tried it yet so I am sure there will be updates later. Fujitsu announces ScanSnap Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard Update for ScanSnap S1500M, S300M, S510M, and S500M. Updating select ScanSnap models listed above is a two part process. The first update […]
Continue readingThere are, of course, a million ways to convert PDF documents to JPG or PNG files. However, sometimes you just want something quick and easy. A while ago, reader AS pointed me out an Applescript droplet written by Martin Michel over at MacScripter. AS mentioned that it would be nice to have a version that […]
Continue readingUpdate Nov 13, 2009: The Snow Leopard fix has been released. See this for more information! According to this tweet by @ScanSnapIT (Fujitsu’s official ScanSnap Twitter account), the fix for the ScanSnap with OSX Snow Leopard issues will be available at the end of November. They give a link to go to to get emailed […]
Continue readingThis tip comes from DocumentSnap reader A.S. (thanks!). If you want to add a password to a PDF document, that functionality is built in to Mac OSX’s Preview application. For Windows users, you can use a free program like PDFCreator to do something similar. Here we go: Load up your PDF in Preview Go to […]
Continue readingOne thing I should mention amongst all the posts about whether the ScanSnap is compatible with Snow Leopard. Back on August 26, NeatWorks for Mac version 2.1.7 was released that makes the software compatible with Snow Leopard. From their blog post on the topic: The next major release of NeatWorks, slated for the fall of […]
Continue readingOne issue with the Fujitsu ScanSnap and OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard that I forgot to mention the other day is the ABBYY FineReader that comes bundled with it. When scanning with the version of Finereader that ships with the ScanSnap S510M and S1500M, you may get an error message like “File not created with ScanSnap”. […]
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