Comments on: Going paperless: is it (finally) time?

By: Cole

Cole — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:21:29 +0000

Nice review. Technology has brought us one step ahead to paperless era.

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Scanner Reviews — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:21:23 +0000

Great review. I have to agree that the new document scanners are amazing. High resolution with a fast processing capability is the way of the future; and will help us going paperless.

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By: resim

resim — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:36:06 +0000

The ScanSnap is actually not that great a document scanner. I had one and gave it away to my father, and purchased a Fujitsu fi-5120C instead (with ScanTango software for the Mac).

By: resim

resim — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:34:39 +0000

For Windows users, the Canon DR-2050C is significantly cheaper than the 5120C and also has a reliable feed. In fact, I prefer the paper guides on the Canon document scanners, but unfortunately they don’t have Mac software, either from Canon or third parties

By: Chris Beckman

Chris Beckman — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:06:35 +0000

I too am attempting to go paperless, but as a student. I have bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap S500M, and have tried out the different software you mention. Now it’s a matter of choosing; either Yep for it’s simplicity, DEVONthink Pro for it’s OCRing, or OS X’s built in spotlight and folders for it’s familiarity. Keep us up to date on what you choose!

By: Fazal Majid

Fazal Majid — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:47:30 +0000

The ScanSnap is actually not that great a document scanner. I had one and gave it away to my father, and purchased a Fujitsu fi-5120C instead (with ScanTango software for the Mac).

The ScanSnap’s paper feed is not reliable enough for significant batch scanning. The 5120C’s feed is reliable, on the other hand. It even has an ultrasonic sensor to detect accidental double-feeding of pages, with the ScanSnap double-feeding is common, and your scans may be missing pages without your noticing.

By: Janet Asteroff

Janet Asteroff — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:04:51 +0000

http://www.remotecontrolmail.com will scan your paper mail and make it available online. An interesting alternative to paper. I don’t have time to scan anything!

With the Internet/WWW, the amount of paper we were flooding ourselves with for so many years has decreased; we no longer use computer just for word processing, etc., and the Web offers up information in different bits and bites which don’t need to be printed. Can it be that our use of email from and to all devices has displaced paper? Would make sense.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:41:12 +0000

I’ve been scanning lots of documents, I bought an HP 8250, alas it’s duplex document feeder does not work well. And at $800 it was an expensive flop. I’ve considered a SnapScan, but I wonder how well its files work.
One of the great thing about the HP is scanning directly to a PDF at 300DPI 1bit. The high contrast bitmap documents look great and print great. I use Acrobat to auto-straighten and optimize the scans, a 1Mb page scan can be reduced down to like 30k. So I do a lot of work in Acrobat, it’s very efficient.
But the question I have is, how do the SnapScan PDFs work on a Mac? In Acrobat, there’s a feature to edit the PDF page in an external editor. It kicks you out to Photoshop, you correct, crop, or clean up the image, then hit Save and go back to Acrobat, the corrected page is right there. So, does the SnapScan produce PDFs that are editable for further optimization?