Archives for posts tagged ‘Scanning’

Smooth out the bumps in your workflow with desktop scripting tools

Work flow is inherent in the kind of work that we do when scanning, indexing, searching, filing, tagging, and backing up all of our documents, photos, music, and video. Once you are committed to digital media, you will find that you often need to cobble together different programs in order to do away with some of the tedious manual labor.

Get rid of those shoeboxes of greeting cards, guilt-free!

We all have them tucked in some corner of our house—a stack of old greetings cards that we can’t bear to throw out because of the sentimental value. As a paperless warrior, you have at your disposal the tools to reclaim those corners of your home, with no guilt at all!
On my last birthday, I [...]

Carefully inspect all scanned documents

Today I sat down to scan in a few lengthy documents, on the order of hundreds of pages. I carefully riffled them to avoid stuck sheets, dropped them in the scanner, and pressed the button.
After the scanning was complete, I combined the resulting files into one and prepared to run OCR on the whole lot.
Before [...]