Scanning Everything
posted in Technology |I decided a couple of years ago to scan all my paperwork. All my bills, and other such stuff. So far its mostly been handy when I need to find a record from away from home or something like that, but today another application turned up.
Part of the cool thing of the scanning software (I just use a Dell All-In-One 962 printer with a built-in scanner) is that it scans each document and OCRs it and puts it into a PDF which contains both the image as well as the text version of the document.
Today I needed to remember if I’d paid for Parallels (the Mac VM stuff) and I was surprised that I couldn’t find any record of having paid for it in my email. But with the scanned documents I was able to do a text-search on all my credit-card records and find the charge. Pretty cool! Now that is the kind of scenario that I want enabled by integrated storage…