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A life recorded in bits and bytes
Bell, a principle researcher at Microsoft Research, has now written a book about how in the future we may all be able to offload our own memory into a comprehensive e-memory. In an interview with the BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme, Mr Bell explained the motivation behind his unique and intriguing work. With the increasing popularity of the cloud - the name given to information stored in the online space - people are beginning to archive even more their lives. "I wouldn't have said this 20 years ago because of the difficulty and the cost to do it. The opportunity now is: it doesn't cost anything to do this."
What Software Do I Need ?
Possibly None It could be that you already have all the software that you need. If you have a ScanSnap or other scanner, it will come with software to scan and possibly even convert it to a searchable PDF.How do you organize your documents , and then find them when you need them? The Paperless Document Organization Guide is your comprehensive guide to organizing your electronic documents, written in plain English.
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The real paperless office
by Joe Kissell , Macworld.com Oct 9, 2007 9:00 am Computers were supposed to make paperless offices possible, but most of us are surrounded by more pages than ever. It’s possible to break free from paper’s grip, however. I’ve developed a system that has allowed me to eliminate all but a slim handful of papers from my formerly bulging filing cabinets. I scan my documents and convert them to PDF files that include both high-resolution images of the originals (for reference and later printing) and—using optical character recognition (OCR) software—digitized copies of document text (so I can search, select, or copy it). As a result, I have more free space on my desk and in my file cabinets, and almost every piece of paper in my erstwhile files—old tax forms, letters from my bank, and more, as well as new stuff that still comes in—is now searchable, easy to back up, and accessible from just about anywhere.
Three months ago, my husband and I hit our limit and knew that we had to get the paper clutter in our house under control. Our paper clutter problem has since been greatly reduced and I would like to share some tips for how we accomplished this task in a series of posts on the topic. Our filing cabinet was the worst of our paper monstrosity. Crammed into folders were papers that we wanted but didn’t necessarily need in tangible form. We knew that there were some papers that we had to keep in paper form — like mortgage documents, tax returns, and insurance policies — but finding them was next to impossible because of all of the other clutter.
Paper clutter begone, part 1
Even if you do all your banking online, there's still one ugly time of year when you've got to deal with a pile of financial paperwork, and that's tax time . If your accountant accepts forms via email, or you just want to save tax documents on your computer, you want a quick and easy way to do it. While most scanner workflows require several steps to digitize documents, the Fujitsu ScanSnap transforms paper into PDF with a single button press. No one wants to spend more time than they have to on receipts, 1099's and W-2's. Let's take a look at how to instantly capture tax-related and other important paperwork to your hard drive on April 15th and throughout the year with the ScanSnap.
Scan paperwork to PDF in one step with ScanSnap S300
Fujitsu 6140
A reader pointed me to the Fujitsu 6140 . It is faster than the Scan Snap at 80 to 120 ppm (each side counts as one page) and seems to be a little more heavy duty in its construction. It looks like it uses dual rollers where the Scan Snap 510 and 510M only use one. This might help guard against misfeeds and paper jams. The 6140 comes with Kofax workgroup software that will handle some scanning tasks including processing bar codes scanned on documents. The scanner appears to only support the Windows platform.