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Paperless Home
Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 2:23 pm
by DJF3
Hi,
Just found some time to write a message about one of my latest projects. Moving towards a paperless home. Note that ideally you do not want to receive any paper and that's something that I'm working on. Right now I want all of the paperwork that's IN the house to turn into ELECTRONIC documents.
Long story short:
- Fujitsu S1500 scanner
- Devonthink Pro software
What it does:
- HW: Scanning, turning into searchable PDF's, storing on NAS
- SW: importing scans, proposing a folder where the scan needs to be stored. Many features like searching.
More information:
- Scanner:
domoticaworld.com/projects/fujitsu-docu ... t-scanner/
- Paperless Home project:
http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/paperless-home/
Enjoy!
DJ
Re: Paperless Home
Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 8:15 pm
by BlaDeBla
I am feeding my personal administratie to a Canon Laserbase multifunctional for several years now. Renaming the files to unique filenames with, I believe, is an older version of A-PDF Rename. Scanned documents spend their years in an IKEA carton store box (Pappis, €0,70, suitable for A4 and letter size).
I have share on my server with a directory structure like
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\2010
\Bank
\Car
\General invoices
\Insurance
\2011
\Bank
\Car
..
It should be searchable using
Nuance Paperport 12, but I am not happy with the performance of this solution. Most of the time I can look more quickly into a few files than using the Paperport search functionality.
Looking for an application that can place a pdf in the right directory recognizing the letter lay out and company logo.
Re: Paperless Home
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 12:43 am
by Esteban
Another nice write-up DJ! *thumbs up*
Re: Paperless Home
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 6:15 am
by Bastiaan
Hi Dj, thanks for your thoughts.
I'll add my ones for reference:
Using a HPscanjet full duplex with feeder, connected to an AXIS network gateway. It has the profile settings under buttons and shows it on a small LCD screen. The documents go to a folder on the server via FTP.
It's a bulky setup so no going around with it like yours but I haven;t felt the need for it either.
As software I am using DAmanager:
http://www.archound.com/ which is WIndows only and runs on my WHS server. You can access it with the Windows clients but since most of our systems are OSX, I am looking for something better.
It's not easy to find something that works and doesn't need a lot of extra time.
Bastiaan