MindCamp2.0: Paperless Office and Cool Stuff | April 29th, 2006
Paperless Office by H.B Siegel from IMDB.com
H.B. Gave us overview of creating a paperless home office after working on look inside the book at Amazon.com.
Some of the tools:
Fujitsu Scansnap dual side scanner. Under $400 (this is the only cost except for massive amounts of time!!!)
Backup service via dvd writer and USB Hardrive.
Lucene > Java based search software
What he digitized:
Bills
Medical
Nostalgic
Legal
Credit Card Receipt Bill
Taxes*
Car Maintenance
Handouts
Business Cards
Papers / Academic
Reference
Travel (I-94)*
Foreign Money
Pay Stubs
Books
Tech
Warranties
Manuals
Passport*
Wills*
Birth Certificates*
Contracts*
Home ownership / maint
Photos*
SSN / SINin Canada*
Papers
*Indicates stuff you want to keep a hardcopy of forever
Process:
- Scan > PDF
- OCR > TXT > Abby Reader
- Lucene > Index for Searching
Photos – Awesome with Picasa
Business Cards + Cardminder = Very Good
Document + Scansnap + Truecrypt + Lucene/Copernic = pretty good
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April 17th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Very interesting book, I wonder when solutions like this are going to become easier to use/more transparent… right now I still think you need to be a bit of a techie to take on a project like this.