This is Part 2 of a 2 part series about SmartVault. Part 1 outlined how to use SmartVault for online document storage, so you may want to read it first. In Part 1, we talked about using SmartVault to upload and manage documents, and how to map a drive so that you can access your […]
Continue readingThis is Part 1 of a 2 part series about SmartVault. Part 2 outlines how to use SmartVault with Quickbooks and the Fujitsu ScanSnap. I get a fair amount of emails that look something like this: “Hey Brooks, I’m interested in going paperless and I use Quickbooks. Any ideas how I can attach scanned invoices […]
Continue readingSometimes rather than creating new PDF files every time, you want to scan to an existing document. Over on the ScanSnap Community, they’ve posted a helpful video showing how to use Adobe Acrobat (which comes with the ScanSnap S1500) to scan to Acrobat and then add the pages to an existing document. The video is […]
Continue readingYears ago I read article by blogger Darren Barefoot in which he relates how he likes to check out what the smart people are doing with respect to their tools. That article has always stuck with me, because I tend to follow the same approach. With that in mind, I’ve noticed that a number of […]
Continue readingRecently in the DocumentSnap newsletter I wrote about how I am going through a bunch of my old magazines, scanning in just the articles I want and recycling the rest. Here is how I am doing it: 1. Cut out the pages from the magazine 2. Scan the article with my Fujitsu ScanSnap directly into […]
Continue readingI happen to think that the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 and S1300 are pretty good looking machines, as far as scanners go. But sometimes, I want more. Like for example, it would be nice to have a bird hand-painted on it. Well, it’s my lucky day. PFU, which is the division of Fujitsu in Japan that […]
Continue readingThere is nothing worse than sitting in a presentation and the presenter is using the same MS Office clip art that we have all seen 1000 times. A while ago I came across this tweet by Angelo van der Sijpt in which he said that all he needs to do a presentation was a Sharpie, […]
Continue readingAs many of you know, I’m a bit of a fan of the Fujitsu ScanSnap line of scanners. What you don’t know, however, is the real reason why I like them. It’s not the speed or ease of use or any of that boring stuff. Honestly, my fondness for them really comes down to one […]
Continue readingThe other day I was having a conversation with a consulting client, and we got to talking about things to do with your paper before you scan it. I’ve written a lot about scanning documents and what to do after you scan them, but I haven’t written too much about document preparation. One of the […]
Continue readingOne topic that has come up in the comments a number of times over the years here on DocumentSnap is using a Fujitsu ScanSnap over the network. Up until now I had never figured out a way to do that, but I recently came across some murmurings that implied that some people have had […]
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