
But if you need a smaller file size for your scanned documents, read on. If you don’t have Adobe Acrobat, this will do fine and you can skip the rest of this article. Downloading PDF files from Evernote is also much faster on my iOS devices.Ī good thing about ABBYY is that this software is often included with document scanners. I don’t want to take up to much space on both my local disk and on Evernote. But the file size of the finished PDF files was much larger than when compared to my final workflow. It is fast, easy to use and generally nice. I first tried to use ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac. So you could use whatever application you want. The Folder Action described below makes it possible for any program that can scan and save a file to a folder to upload automatically to Evernote. I’ve made what I think is a pretty good workflow so I’ll try to describe it. It’s not really made for scanning large amount of papers, but it does the job. There’s also a small portable scanner called Doxie Go that looks interesting, with rechargeable batteries and a SD card slot.īut I don’t have the money to buy one now so my old flatbed scanner, the Canon CanoScan 8800f, now discontinued and replaced with the better Canon CanoScan 9000F have to do at least for now. It comes with all the software you need and you just put in a stack of papers, receipts or business cards and away it goes. The easiest route is to buy an advanced duplexed document scanner like the highly regarded and award winning Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 duplex document scanner.

I used my old trusty photo scanner, because when all the old papers are scanned and achieved, I only have to scan the new inflowing papers, not the insane stacks of paper I had previously. Tired of drowning in stacks of papers? Want to go paperless? Here’s how I moved all my documents to the cloud and cleared up a lot of the clutter at home.
