Woke up today, walked into the office and thought it might be time to organize the various documents laying around.

Does anyone have a scanner/software combo they recommend ? Id like to be able to scan several pages at a time to an external hard drive or the cloud and be able to search for keywords in the scanned documents.

Bills, insurance docs, other random items. It'd Be nice to scan and toss. I usually can't find exactly what I need in the filing cabinet anyway.

Thanks !

I've had a Fujitsu scansnap (or snapscan) for a number of years and think it is great!
Fast, single or double sided, easy to clear the rare jam AND came with a full copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro.

They have/had different models and price points

Thanks. I'll check it out.

Snap scans are great but I get by with multifunction printer and paperport. Also have omnipage pro but don't ocr often. They go on sale often for half price or less. Also bundled at times.

UmustBKidding said:

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Snap scans are great but I get by with multifunction printer and paperport. Also have omnipage pro but don't ocr often. They go on sale often for half price or less. Also bundled at times.

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I have one that feeds and duplex scans.

I use PDF-XChange Editor for pdf editing and it has an OCR plugin. You can always go back and OCR documents after the fact. I don't find much use for it with scanned bills and stuff.

Scanning software with file naming tools would be more useful to me.

I have one printer that will duplex scan but paperport you can drop in a stack and click scan other side and flip the stack over and it will it will automatically interleave them. The big upside to snap scan is its automatically deskews, handles random size objects flawlessly while simultaneously scanning both sides. But it is not twain compatible so it does not work with some cheap applications. Now that kofax owns the nuance document tools maybe some of those advanced features filter down to paperport.

ScanSnap was delivered this afternoon. Set it up in <10 minutes and scanned my first few docs straight to my google drive. OCR works as far as I can tell. Very cool.

A bit pricey for what I'm using it for but I'll be happier in the long run with this tool that makes something that could be difficult/tedious very simple.