gdp's Comments

DocumentSnap : We Are Our Own Worst Enemy When Going Paperless

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 05:47:42 +0000

one of your suggested strategies brought to mind a problem i always have: quick OCR. i've been looking for ages for ways to automate this process and have it work transparently. here are some thoughts: * user evernote but it turns out they dont always OCR PDFs especially those that are written by hand. * manual OCR means running an app on your PC that will take time and slow your machine down. this is a bottleneck when you are doing more than one thing at once. * why isn't there a tool that scours your folders/hard drive for potential text documents that have not been OCR'd and just does it for you especially in your computers downtime when you are not using it and without having to be managed by the user. now i know that tools like scansnap and others are getting better at this with packaged OCR, etc but i dont think good enough. i've also explored the web-based options and would like to find a tool that integrates with dropbox that can work in the cloud to OCR documents that you put in a specific dropbox folder. this way its not tied to a single machine and makes using my mobile devices for scanning a more versatile option as well.

asymco : Is Apple a candidate for acquisition?

Sun, 29 May 2011 14:11:41 +0000

an interesting point but slightly underestimates what it would take to do this as i suspect the would have to pay a decent premium to the market price. that said, they do throw off more than enough cash to service debt so its definitely to be considered.

DocumentSnap : How I Do Offsite Backup To A Friend's Computer Using CrashPlan

Sat, 14 May 2011 09:58:41 +0000

i've been trying to decide between crashplan and backblaze and seem to be leaning towards the former but an important aspect has recently cropped up in the news and that is data access. its important that NO ONE can access sensitive data no matter who asks for it and this, as far as i am aware, can only be done if only the user has control of their private keys that are used to encrypt the data BEFORE transmission to the server. dropbox has recently been in the news for this matter and i am paying closer attention to this since you never know when an unscrupulous employee could find a way to access your data even if their rules dont allow it. any thoughts on this matter?

DocumentSnap : Share Your Going Paperless Stories

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:35:42 +0000

i've been using Quora.com for a while now and think its a great place to find how-to info. you might want to consider looking at some stories over there and even sharing there with links back to your blog.

DocumentSnap : Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 Review

Thu, 6 Jan 2011 05:29:44 +0000

the price difference between the 1100 ($199) and 1300 ($249) seems minimal but the 1100 has one interesting feature that doesn't seem to be available on the others and that's the ability to scan plastic cards (credit cards, IDs?). i've often come across this need and had to find alternative ways of doing so.

DocumentSnap : Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 Review

Thu, 6 Jan 2011 05:27:59 +0000

is there a video anywhere of how this works?

DocumentSnap : Top 10 Going Paperless Products Of 2010

Wed, 5 Jan 2011 13:00:34 +0000

interesting data. what was the sample size? considering that the 1300 is almost have the price of the 1500, that might be the major cause.

DocumentSnap : Use Genius Scan To Be An iPhone Scanning Genius

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:28:38 +0000

Interesting. I will take another look at Genius as well. FYI Jotnot developer responds to emails regularly if you need help.

DocumentSnap : Use Genius Scan To Be An iPhone Scanning Genius

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:13:00 +0000

Welcome to the club! I've been using Jotnot on my iPhone for a while now and still think its the best after using Genius (free version) and another one that's name I forget. What I found annoying about Genius was that there was no way to make a scan B/W instead of a shaded/colored format. Jotnot does this nicely. Otherwise Genius is pretty cool too. They both also upload to Evernote.

DocumentSnap : Fujitsu Offers To Buy You An Evernote Premium Account

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:01:09 +0000

actually it looks like a yes. check this out from the Evernote blog post (your link above) comments: http://drp.ly/16Md43

DocumentSnap : Fujitsu Offers To Buy You An Evernote Premium Account

Sun, 30 May 2010 08:06:03 +0000

so what if i already have an evernote premium account? do i still qualify for a rebate?

DocumentSnap : Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Review

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:57:11 +0000

thanks. its useful to know the difference is only in the software. i guess i will decide on one or the other but im leaning towards the portable since it seems to have the same features and i already have the s510m.

DocumentSnap : Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Review

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:05:48 +0000

for some reason i was expecting to see the s1500 series also as hybrids but i just checked and it seems this is the only one. now i can't figure out if i should buy one of those as an upgrade to my s500m or wait for a possible 'hybrid' release. maybe i should buy this one since i dont have a portable already. any thoughts?

DocumentSnap : Your Votes: Best Online Document Storage Solution?

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:51:54 +0000

i like dropbox as well and use it quite regularly along with evernote. also dropbox are always iterating an improving.

DocumentSnap : Does The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 OCR Use A Lot Of CPU?

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:48:24 +0000

i just watched the video and the OCR is super fast especially when compared to the time Adobe Acrobat 7 used to take (came bundled with S510M). in that version, Acrobat would have to launch (a slow process) and then it would take a while to go through the document and really disrupted workflow as you'd also have to save, etc. this new setup looks very smooth and integrated much better. i think you've convinced me to pick up a new scansnap =)

DocumentSnap : Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Review

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:18:19 +0000

thanks for that screenshot. useful to know. now about my earlier OCR query, would you have any info? im hoping this device (s1300) does NOT depend on Adobe Acrobat but instead on some integrated, fluid OCR tool. Here's my original question: "i would like to know a bit more about the very interesting sounding OCR feature that you say is bundled within the software (both mac and win) and, from your screenshot, seems to be different and separate from Adobe Acrobat. how fast does it OCR a B&W page of standard text? does it do it seamlessly? is it heavy on a Mac CPU slowing down other running applications, etc? "

DocumentSnap : Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Review

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:14:27 +0000

brooks - are you sure keyword highlighting is not a hardware implementation? if its software, does it mean the document has to be scanned in color?

DocumentSnap : Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Review

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 08:01:19 +0000

another question just came to me: does the built-in OCR software allow you to OCR previously scanned PDFs? (vs. having to rescan them)

DocumentSnap : Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Review

Sun, 4 Apr 2010 07:14:13 +0000

thanks and have a safe trip.

DocumentSnap : Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 Review

Sat, 3 Apr 2010 13:16:39 +0000

brooks - great review and video. thanks for giving us some useful detail on the latest to this acclaimed paperless lifestyle tool. i would like to know a bit more about the very interesting sounding OCR feature that you say is bundled within the software (both mac and win) and, from your screenshot, seems to be different and separate from Adobe Acrobat. how fast does it OCR a B&W page of standard text? does it do it seamlessly? is it heavy on a Mac CPU slowing down other running applications, etc? i still have my original S500M scansnap machine (mac only) that i now use with my 2009 macbook pro that, while a great piece of hardware still, came bundled with the full version of Adobe Acrobat (v7 i think) to provide its advertised OCRing feature but that I never really used to its workflow killing startup time and CPU load. having a native, quick and light OCR function within the Scansnap software from fujitsu that could work behind the scenes and automatically would be amazing and so it would be good to find out more.