Comments on: The Reboot: Going (Mostly) Paperless http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/the-reboot-going-mostly-paperless/ Thu, 23 May 2013 05:14:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Going (Mostly) Paperless « liamcassidy.co.uk http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/the-reboot-going-mostly-paperless/#comment-344253 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:02:23 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=22235#comment-344253 [...] This article first appeared on The Apple Blog. [...]

]]> By: Apple Tablet Rumors: Could It Change the World? http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/the-reboot-going-mostly-paperless/#comment-344252 Tue, 26 May 2009 17:03:51 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=22235#comment-344252 [...] jot down a telephone number. I scrabbled around for some spare paper (not easy to find since my recent efforts at going paperless!) and then I had to find a (working) pen. Finally, I had to put pen to [...]

]]> By: Eli Regalado http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/the-reboot-going-mostly-paperless/#comment-344251 Mon, 11 May 2009 09:38:44 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=22235#comment-344251 This is the best paperless software available! The CEO was the first person to implement a PC scanner and he also invented the .tif file format.

There’s a demo on the site.

]]> By: Demi God http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/the-reboot-going-mostly-paperless/#comment-344250 Sun, 10 May 2009 10:54:40 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=22235#comment-344250 Adobe Acrobat Professional is doing the OCR work. Hence why no 7 Patrick cannot get the text selectable in Preview or Adobe Reader (not the same as Adobe Acrobat now).

In response to The Eck, HP printer software is a collaboration with HP and IRIS. The very basic version of IRIS that is included with the HP all-in-one style performs ok, but IRIS obviously wants you to make the upgrade to the full version. It suffers no layout abilities, text is accurate only on stuff that is already good quality printed text.

The annoying thing is under 10.5 and free HP you seem not to be able to save colour OCR’ed files to PDF (an error occurred and the file could not created!). Under 10.3.9 and free HP software you could! You could OCR scan to a text file and save the output to PDF which also preserved the location and page layout. However, under 10.5 you can save colour OCR’ed text files to HTML which preserves the layout; as long as the HTML browser is correct version. HTML is not a good archive format though.

The point here really is you can do a basic job of OCR scanning with HP IRIS combo but it is convoluted and not a robust solution. The Acrobat/HP combo would be better I think?

]]> By: The Eck http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/the-reboot-going-mostly-paperless/#comment-344249 Wed, 06 May 2009 19:48:09 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=22235#comment-344249 #16: Velocraptor? Sounds like Velo-bind with some scatological implications. Is this from the planet Krapton, Sumperman’s home world?

]]> By: Duncan McGregor http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/the-reboot-going-mostly-paperless/#comment-344248 Wed, 06 May 2009 16:55:39 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=22235#comment-344248 Please forgive the shameless plug, but if you’re looking for Mac OCR software to read those image-only PDFs, please drop by velocraptor.com We’re working on a modern Mac app to convert images to PDFs with embedded text.

]]> By: Wilson Ng - Guam http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/the-reboot-going-mostly-paperless/#comment-344247 Tue, 05 May 2009 11:38:12 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=22235#comment-344247 If auditor sees that you are meticulous and well prepared with the scanning and filing of documents then it would be permissable. They would tend to trust your filing system if you were careful about it. They obviously wouldn’t trust your scans if you just had a bunch of image files crammed in folders all over the hard drive.

It also depends on the auditor if he/she allows photocopies. One of my friends had an idiot auditor that demanded the original carbon copies of credit card receipts as proof. My friend gave photocopies of the credit card receipts but the auditor didn’t want them. She wanted the “originals.”

My friend proceeded to blast her a new bum-hole and showed her that most credit card receipts are on carbon paper which fades over time. All he had were blank scraps of paper. Finally the auditing company yanked her for incompetence and replaced her with another auditor who had some common sense.

Auditors will not trust the validity of the scanned copies if they see that your record keeping is shoddy…..

I file my scanned PDFs in DevonThink Pro Office. In the comments section, I enter in any extra comments I may want to add about a certain receipt.

I’m thinking of checking out Mariner Paperless (formerly known as ReceiptWallet) as a software package to help me with my quest for a paperless office.

]]> By: Naoman Sheikh http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/the-reboot-going-mostly-paperless/#comment-344246 Sun, 03 May 2009 10:35:28 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=22235#comment-344246 I applaud the actions and sentiments in this article. However, one thing that you should remember is that if the Inland Revenue were to ever investigate you then they would require the original receipts. Scanned copies will not suffice.

]]> By: David Chadderton http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/the-reboot-going-mostly-paperless/#comment-344245 Fri, 01 May 2009 09:52:23 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=22235#comment-344245 This doesn’t work at all. I have the C6280 with the exact same software, but the text doesn’t every become text unless you OCR it (how could it?). Scan it to a PDF and you just get a PDF with an embedded image of text.

]]> By: Dan http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/the-reboot-going-mostly-paperless/#comment-344244 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:44:37 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=22235#comment-344244 The Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M (The “M” is for the “Mac” version) is awesome… I first read a great review about it on 43folders.

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