I used to be one of those people with file cabinets full of “documents” and “records” at home. But I have always harbored a few ounces of doubt as to whether I should actually be keeping all these files. Would I ever need to consult an old brokerage statement or credit card bill?
After a little shopping research, I found the answer. And it lives up to every rave review on Amazon. It is Fujitsu’s Scansnap FI-5110EOX2 scanner.
I can put stacks of 50 pages in the feeder at once, and in a couple of minutes, I have a digital document.
- it scans double- or single-sided pages in one pass (and accurately auto-detects)
- it never jams
- it can do color or black and white images
- it comes with Adobe Acrobat and outputs PDF files
- it allows you to trade off quality/resolution vs. file size using 4 distinct settings. The lowest is fine for most business documents and requires about 50kb per page side scanned; the highest produces near-photo quality JPEGs
- it comes with a USB 2.0 (or 1.x) connector
- it takes up hardly any space (it’s about 10” tall with a 6” x 13” footprint)
- it retails for less than $450.
Can anyone recommend a good shredder?
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How are you organizing the resulting mounds of files?
I imagine you have named each file by hand and organized it in hierarchical categories.
Is there any OCR + Search method to access these files?
Yes, I'm hand-naming files and putting them into folders/directories. I believe there are some pretty good OCR packages out there, but I haven't bothered (yet).
You don't really need *document management* anymore, in fact you hardly need any directories, just use Desktop Search.
I don't know about the GYM products, but the one I use, Copernic Desktop Search indexes the entire content of PDF files (amongst others), so you can pull up any document with a simple keyword search in minutes.
Hi, thanks for sharing this.
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