digitisation

Scan Paperwork to PDF in One Step

4:00AM Gina Trapani | Even if you do all your banking online, there’s still one ugly time of year when you’ve got to deal with a pile of financial paperwork, and that’s tax time. If your accountant accepts forms via email, or you just want to save tax documents on your computer, you want a quick and easy way to do it. While most scanner workflows require several steps to digitise documents, the Fujitsu ScanSnap transforms paper into PDF with a single button press. No one wants to spend more time than they have to on receipts, 1099’s and W-2’s. Let’s take a look at how to instantly capture tax-related and other important paperwork to your hard drive on April 15th and throughout the year with the ScanSnap. More »

Digitise Your Analog Images at ScanCafe

9:00AM Adam Pash | If you’ve got a drawer full of photographs you’d love to preserve digitally but don’t feel like going through the work of scanning every one yourself, send them to web site ScanCafe for cheap and professional scanning. The service charges $0.19 for each negative and $0.24 for each slide you accept (you can reject up to 50% for whatever reason, whether you don’t like the quality or you just don’t want the image). The door-to-door round trip will take approximately seven to eight weeks, but the quality is excellent and price is very competitive. If you’ve ever used ScanCafe, let us know how it worked out for you in the comments. If you’ve got another preferred digitising method, we’d love to hear about that, too. ScanCafe [via Cool Tools] More »