The problem is that this sync doesn’t seem to be two way. It will even let you sync to a folder and replicate the hierarchy in your DevonThink Database. Is that true or is it cross platform and I missed it?Īlso DevonThink does a great job of letting you keep things in folders and creating a hierarchy. I’ll keep you posted on my progress.Īs always, please let me know if you have any suggestions that might help me out.įiled Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: paperless Reader Byrne – It looks like KIXZO is a windows solution from my brief look at your site. I’m still hoping to have my paperless office up and running by the end of the year. ![]() I may like it better once I understand it more. DEVONThink offers some ways to help make this easier, but I’m not completely sold on it yet. I liked the idea behind DEVONThink, but I’m still more comfortable keeping my files in a hierarchy in the filesystem instead of in a database. I had a personal edition, but the Pro Office version interfaces with the ScanSnap and will do OCR conversion automatically. I’m still playing with the trial version of DEVONThink Pro Office. ![]() The ability to scan both sides of a document at the same time is a significant advantage. I don’t have my document repository setup yet, but already it has made it easier to deal with documents that need faxed or emailed. It isn’t perfect and occasionally it misfeeds, but overall it has been a welcome addition to my tool set. I purchased a Fujitsu ScanSnap and so far I’ve been impressed. ![]() (A simple test to see if a PDF is storing data as pixels or text is to try to copy and paste a paragraph into a text editor.) I’ve found that for a proper workflow I need to make sure that the character recognition happens automatically as part of the scanning process. A generic scanning process simply recognizes the pixels and doesn’t actually turn them into words. One of the most important parts of being able to search for your documents later is recognizing it as text. Here is a quick update on what I’ve found so far. I’ve had an huge influx of consulting requests in the past 60 days, so I haven’t dedicated as much time to this as I had originally planned. I am still working on my paperless office experiment.
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