If there is one tool that I can’t seem to shut up about, it is Hazel. It makes it really easy and efficient to process paperless documents[1]. The only problem is that Hazel is a Mac app, and I have struggled to find a Windows equivalent. There are many Windows apps out there that will […]
Continue readingWindows Search in newer versions of Microsoft Windows works pretty well, but sometimes it is may not be picking up files that you think it should, or perhaps you want to tell it not to search for some files or types of files. This video shows you how to control the Indexing Options for Windows […]
Continue readingYou can use the little-used Send To menu in Windows to speed up copying to frequently-used folders.
Continue readingThis video on displaying all PDFs in Windows is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. Sometimes if you are looking for a document, as a last resort it can be helpful to just get a big list of all the documents on your […]
Continue readingThis video on Windows 7 Snap is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. Finally, my new MacBook Air is here and I am back up and running with making videos. Today’s is a quick tip on how you can easily compare and move […]
Continue readingAs I have mentioned earlier, the question of “what do I do with my files once I have scanned them?” comes up quite a bit. If you use Windows, it can be hard to decide which paperless office software package to use (or if you even need one). In a strange role reversal, a client […]
Continue readingThe ScanSnap Organizer program that comes with WIndows versions of the Fujitsu ScanSnap is pretty good, but it does have one big limitation that DocumentSnap reader Katherine from Austin Texas ran into: you can’t OCR or set keywords to PDF files that were not created by the ScanSnap scanner. I couldn’t find a built-in way […]
Continue readingIf you are a Mac OS X user, you will be familiar with Time Machine. If you are reading this site I would hope you are, as it is the super-easy backup solution that is built into the OS. The premise of Time Machine is you plug in an external hard drive, your Mac detects […]
Continue readingA very common request that I get here at DocumentSnap is to compare the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities of ABBYY FineReader with Adobe Acrobat. Why? Well, for starters, both of them come included with models the Fujitsu ScanSnap as well as other scanners. I decided to do a quick test comparing the OCR of […]
Continue readingI am always in awe of is the number of different platforms that Evernote supports. Having worked in software in the past, I can only imagine the product management headache that must cause. Because of all their platforms, sometimes different versions start getting a bit long in the tooth and that was definitely the case […]
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