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General Software Discussion / Re: Paperless Home: Need document management software

« on: February 26, 2007, 09:47 PM »

I wrote up some info on how to examine the features of a new scanner and make the right choice:

http://www.scanguru.com/page.php?15

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paperless Home: Need document management software

« on: February 13, 2007, 09:50 PM »

Hi dc'ers,

I'd like to try implement something close to a paperless office, what I'd like to do is:
1. Scan all paper documents received at home (bank statements, letters,...)
2. Use OCR if applicable (maybe, I'm not sure whether it's a good thing to do at the moment)
3. Store the scanned document in the right format (multi-page TIFF, multi-page PDF, other?)
4. Use a clever document storage (filesystem with nice/clean directory structure, dedicated database/revision management system,...)

Interesting user story: http://www.onlamp.co...ment_management.html

Possible software I've seen so far:
PDFFactory : http://www.fineprint...dffactory/index.html ($49.95 or $99.95 for the pro version)
ABBY Fineprint Reader Pro: http://www.abbyy.com...reader8/?param=44890 (~$160)
Perforce (see article by Jason Hunter referenced above) : http://www.perforce.com/ (free version available, limited to 2 clients)

Any comments on this? Has anyone set up a similar system?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers  /jerome

-jeromg (January 13, 2007, 09:29 AM)

Paperport is great for desktop document management, but I would also recommend eCopy desktop.  Very powerful tool, with a lot of neat options. 

Check out the article at http://www.scanguru.com on the levels of Document Management.

Hi dc'ers,

I'd like to try implement something close to a paperless office, what I'd like to do is:
1. Scan all paper documents received at home (bank statements, letters,...)
2. Use OCR if applicable (maybe, I'm not sure whether it's a good thing to do at the moment)
3. Store the scanned document in the right format (multi-page TIFF, multi-page PDF, other?)
4. Use a clever document storage (filesystem with nice/clean directory structure, dedicated database/revision management system,...)

Interesting user story: http://www.onlamp.co...ment_management.html

Possible software I've seen so far:
PDFFactory : http://www.fineprint...dffactory/index.html ($49.95 or $99.95 for the pro version)
ABBY Fineprint Reader Pro: http://www.abbyy.com...reader8/?param=44890 (~$160)
Perforce (see article by Jason Hunter referenced above) : http://www.perforce.com/ (free version available, limited to 2 clients)

Any comments on this? Has anyone set up a similar system?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers  /jerome

-jeromg (January 13, 2007, 09:29 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paperless Home: Need document management software

« on: February 06, 2007, 11:53 PM »

Paperport/Omnipage are great, but try out eCopy desktop.  Much simpler to use, and cheaper!!!

Link below:

http://www.scanguru....page/links.php?cat.2