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Updating your Business Card Contacts Using ScanSnap and Cardiris Software for Mac

Monday, March 15th, 2010

With ScanSnap and Cardiris, business card scanning on your Mac is a snap! Every ScanSnap scanner comes complete with a suite of productivity tools including ScanSnap Manager where customized one click profiles can be easily configured, ABBYY Fine Reader (now available with the new S1300 mobile scanner) to enable scanning to .xls and .doc file [...]

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How ScanSnap Works with Mariner Paperless

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Even in the “digital age” we still use paper for creating and storing information, however, having to archive all those documents can become a cluttered mess after time and take up precious space in your home or office. Mariner Paperless software for Mac works in combination with the Fujitsu ScanSnap to help you digitize those [...]

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How to Turn Quick Menu On and Off

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

The ScanSnap Quick Menu provides users an easy way to scan to a folder, attach scans to an email, and send scans to a printer. For various reasons, you may want to turn off and on the ScanSnap Quick Menu, such as wanting to adjust your settings to scan to JPEG or utilizing a specific [...]

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Scanning & Indexing with Inofile on the ScanSnap fi-6010N iScanner

Friday, February 5th, 2010

The ScanSnap fi-6010N iScanner offers a number of third party solutions from Fujitsu’s technology partners, which are built with the optional Software Developer’s Kit (SDK).  When the development staff at OsmosyzTM analyzed the available choices for the creation of a universal platform for scanning and indexing, there were options but none compared to the ScanSnap [...]

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How Can I Scan My Documents Face-Up with My S1500?

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

By default, ScanSnap is configured to scan documents face down like a fax machine. But ScanSnap is configurable so if you prefer to place your documents face-up in the automatic document feeder, it only takes one simple change to your S1500 settings to prepare ScanSnap for your scanning method and automatically reorder your images correctly [...]

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6 Approaches to Time Stamping PDF Files Using Adobe Acrobat 9*

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

How do I add a time and/or date stamp to my scanned documents?
ScanSnap and Adobe Acrobat 9 users ask this often and I’m always compelled to answer “it depends,” as there are a number of methods for time or date stamping PDF files in Acrobat 9. Options are good, right?  Here are a few ways [...]

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Using the Auto Rotate Feature on Your ScanSnap

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

One of the great time saving features of ScanSnap is Auto Rotate, which automatically turns scanned documents to the proper orientation.  It’s especially helpful for documents that are scanned upside down or in landscape orientation, since they cannot be recognized properly.  Here’s how to use Auto Rotate on your ScanSnap:
Open the ScanSnap Manager settings.  Click [...]

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How Can I Scan and Share My Documents in the Cloud?

Monday, December 14th, 2009

ScanSnap and Oxygen are joining forces to expand the benefits of the cloud to your desktop file system. By installing Oxygen at no cost, you can easily scan your documents into a folder that connects you to the cloud so you can store, access, edit, manage, and share those files from anywhere with anyone. Gone [...]

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Digitally Signing PDF Documents Using Adobe Acrobat 9*: An Introduction

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Question for you: name one thing that can be found throughout your workplace, school or home? No, I am not thinking of dust and dirt (I really do need to get a house cleaner). It is paper forms that come to my mind. In this case, those that need to be signed with a pen. [...]

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Prep Paper for Better Performance

Friday, November 13th, 2009

You watched the video on how to clean your ScanSnap. You saw how to change the consumables. But you still experience occasional double feeds. Believe it or not, you could be causing the problem!
Preparing your paper for scanning is just as important as keeping your ScanSnap clean, so we created this short three step primer [...]

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