Comments on: Sort out those disorganized thoughts with a Mind Map http://paperjammed.com/2010/05/27/sort-out-those-disorganized-thoughts-with-a-mind-map/ Has paper taken over your life? Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:35:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tad http://paperjammed.com/2010/05/27/sort-out-those-disorganized-thoughts-with-a-mind-map/comment-page-1/#comment-22998 Tad Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:22:39 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=997#comment-22998 Hi Linda, I actually have two: my trusty old Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M sheet-fed scanner, and a cheap Canon flatbed scanner. The ScanSnap (current models are the S1500 and S1500M) goes for around $420 on Amazon, but it does come with an OEM version of ABBYY FineReader OCR and Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro. I use the ScanSnap for almost everything I scan. It does both sides of a sheet in one pass, in about four seconds. I keep the old USB-powered CanoScan flatbed scanner for two things: photographs and books. The ScanSnap is good for magazine pages and such, but does not have true photographic quality. And unless I bandsaw the spine off a book (which I do from time to time), I need a flatbed scanner to scan a page or two. If you are serious about your receipts and documents and taxes and so on, go for the ScanSnap S1500 (PC) or S1500M (Mac). With a flat-bed a twenty-page document will take ten to fifteen minutes; with the ScanSnap it takes about forty seconds. The provided software will make it easy to OCR the docs so you can index and search them. Scanning each page by hand gets old quickly. You will save yourself many hours with the fast sheet-fed one. Just remember that it doesn't do photos well and it can't scan bound books. Good luck! Hi Linda,

I actually have two: my trusty old Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M sheet-fed scanner, and a cheap Canon flatbed scanner.
The ScanSnap (current models are the S1500 and S1500M) goes for around $420 on Amazon, but it does come with an OEM version of ABBYY FineReader OCR and Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro.
I use the ScanSnap for almost everything I scan. It does both sides of a sheet in one pass, in about four seconds.

I keep the old USB-powered CanoScan flatbed scanner for two things: photographs and books. The ScanSnap is good for magazine pages and such, but does not have true photographic quality. And unless I bandsaw the spine off a book (which I do from time to time), I need a flatbed scanner to scan a page or two.

If you are serious about your receipts and documents and taxes and so on, go for the ScanSnap S1500 (PC) or S1500M (Mac). With a flat-bed a twenty-page document will take ten to fifteen minutes; with the ScanSnap it takes about forty seconds. The provided software will make it easy to OCR the docs so you can index and search them.

Scanning each page by hand gets old quickly. You will save yourself many hours with the fast sheet-fed one. Just remember that it doesn’t do photos well and it can’t scan bound books.

Good luck!

]]> By: Linda M. http://paperjammed.com/2010/05/27/sort-out-those-disorganized-thoughts-with-a-mind-map/comment-page-1/#comment-22962 Linda M. Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:34:48 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=997#comment-22962 Tad, I happened to come into your website as I was searching for a way to scan old greeting cards. I love your thoughts about going paperless...it is my goal and I am only getting started. I don't have a scanner yet, and would like to just buy ONE scanner to scan everything, i.e., receipts, docs, bus cards, greeting cards, photos, taxes, etc. Please tell me if you have ONE scanner or multiple scanners for different tasks? Thank you! Linda 12-16-10 Tad, I happened to come into your website as I was searching for a way to scan old greeting cards. I love your thoughts about going paperless…it is my goal and I am only getting started. I don’t have a scanner yet, and would like to just buy ONE scanner to scan everything, i.e., receipts, docs, bus cards, greeting cards, photos, taxes, etc. Please tell me if you have ONE scanner or multiple scanners for different tasks? Thank you! Linda 12-16-10

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