Andre’s Blog

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:

1. Scan > PDF
2. OCR > TXT > Abby Reader
3. Lucene > Index for Searching

Photos - Awesome with Picasa
Business Cards + Cardminder = Very Good
Document + Scansnap + Truecrypt + Lucene/Copernic = pretty good

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