Comments on: Smooth out the bumps in your workflow with desktop scripting tools http://paperjammed.com/2009/03/10/smooth-out-the-bumps-in-your-workflow-with-desktop-scripting-tools/ Has paper taken over your life? Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:23:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tad http://paperjammed.com/2009/03/10/smooth-out-the-bumps-in-your-workflow-with-desktop-scripting-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-4163 Tad Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:59:13 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=339#comment-4163 As you wish! http://paperjammed.com/2009/08/29/automate-scansnap-ocr-process-on-your-mac-with-applescript/ As you wish!

http://paperjammed.com/2009/08/29/automate-scansnap-ocr-process-on-your-mac-with-applescript/

]]> By: David http://paperjammed.com/2009/03/10/smooth-out-the-bumps-in-your-workflow-with-desktop-scripting-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-4125 David Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:11:01 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=339#comment-4125 Hey, I found your blog post while I was trying to figure out how to automate the process of using a SnanSnap to scan a file and FineReader OCRing it. You say that you got it figured out how to do a folder action. I'm also not an applescript whiz. Do you think you could share your script with me so I can make it work? Hey, I found your blog post while I was trying to figure out how to automate the process of using a SnanSnap to scan a file and FineReader OCRing it. You say that you got it figured out how to do a folder action. I’m also not an applescript whiz. Do you think you could share your script with me so I can make it work?

]]> By: Tad http://paperjammed.com/2009/03/10/smooth-out-the-bumps-in-your-workflow-with-desktop-scripting-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Tad Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:57:43 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=339#comment-147 @Brooks Sounds like just the right thing for AppleScript. I have a few droplets hanging around that do a thing or two like that as well. Thanks for posting the example—you have shared a script for others to tweak! @Brooks
Sounds like just the right thing for AppleScript. I have a few droplets hanging around that do a thing or two like that as well.
Thanks for posting the example—you have shared a script for others to tweak!

]]> By: Brooks http://paperjammed.com/2009/03/10/smooth-out-the-bumps-in-your-workflow-with-desktop-scripting-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Brooks Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:09:45 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=339#comment-134 Hey Tad, great post and great website. I also have found that Applescript can be a great help in a document workflow. What I did was create a Droplet (that was ripped off from a script in a MacWorld article) so I could take a pile of scanned PDFs, drop them on the icon, and walk away and let Acrobat do its thing. (I have the 300M which does not come with FineReader). I made a post about it here http://www.documentsnap.com/acrobat-applescript-for-scansnap-ocr/ The Windows tip is awesome. I didn't know about that and AutoIT. Thanks again, great post! Hey Tad, great post and great website. I also have found that Applescript can be a great help in a document workflow.

What I did was create a Droplet (that was ripped off from a script in a MacWorld article) so I could take a pile of scanned PDFs, drop them on the icon, and walk away and let Acrobat do its thing. (I have the 300M which does not come with FineReader).

I made a post about it here http://www.documentsnap.com/acrobat-applescript-for-scansnap-ocr/

The Windows tip is awesome. I didn’t know about that and AutoIT.

Thanks again, great post!

]]> By: Tad http://paperjammed.com/2009/03/10/smooth-out-the-bumps-in-your-workflow-with-desktop-scripting-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Tad Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:29:14 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=339#comment-105 Hey Michael, that's exactly the kind of stuff I'm talking about. You found a way to automate putting custom stamps on arbitrary pages in documents at print time, among other things, obviating many manual steps. Of course, in your case you have taken it far beyond simple scripting and made a commercial product out of it. Your approach reminds me of a commercial product called GreenPrint that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. That tool allows you to easily edit out junk pages from print jobs, such as from browsers. http://paperjammed.com/2009/03/01/cut-down-on-the-cruft-when-you-print-web-pages/ There are lots of products that have grown from the simple need to bridge a gap in a work flow. Hey Michael, that’s exactly the kind of stuff I’m talking about.

You found a way to automate putting custom stamps on arbitrary pages in documents at print time, among other things, obviating many manual steps. Of course, in your case you have taken it far beyond simple scripting and made a commercial product out of it.

Your approach reminds me of a commercial product called GreenPrint that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. That tool allows you to easily edit out junk pages from print jobs, such as from browsers.
http://paperjammed.com/2009/03/01/cut-down-on-the-cruft-when-you-print-web-pages/

There are lots of products that have grown from the simple need to bridge a gap in a work flow.

]]> By: Michael Ross http://paperjammed.com/2009/03/10/smooth-out-the-bumps-in-your-workflow-with-desktop-scripting-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Michael Ross Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:08:04 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=339#comment-101 After reading your scripting article and particularly noting the conclusion regarding automating just one annoying task a day, I felt I had post a note about a program I developed called StampIt. Probably, one of the more annoying tasks, when having to produce paper workflows for distribution, is the trip to the copy machine and the document marking process. Without going into the history of it, I though you might want to take a look at StampIt as an example of a commercial product that evolved out of a need to eliminate an annoying task. I don't know whether the link will come thru, but here it is: http://www.stampit4word.com. If you have any questions about it, please email me. After reading your scripting article and particularly noting the conclusion regarding automating just one annoying task a day, I felt I had post a note about a program I developed called StampIt. Probably, one of the more annoying tasks, when having to produce paper workflows for distribution, is the trip to the copy machine and the document marking process.

Without going into the history of it, I though you might want to take a look at StampIt as an example of a commercial product that evolved out of a need to eliminate an annoying task. I don’t know whether the link will come thru, but here it is: http://www.stampit4word.com. If you have any questions about it, please email me.

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