The scanner will just keep adding scans to one PDF file until you say stop. So I have one file for 2004 BellSouth statements, for instance. (Named '2004.pdf' and placed in the 'BellSouth' folder, naturally.)
MacOS X 10.5's Preview app allows you to move, rotate or delete pages in a PDF, (and drag and drop pages between files,) so it's really easy to do some clean up afterwards if necessary.
And, the OCR software included adds text to the PDFs... which MacOS X's Spotlight then uses to make every PDF searchable.
If later I want to find all phone statements where I called a particular number, I just hit Cmd-space anywhere to fire up Spotlight, type in 'BellSouth (123) xxx-yyyy' and it'll return a list of all statements for BellSouth where I called that number. When I open them in Preview, the search terms are already highlighted for easy bouncing between hits.
Organizational filing isn't really a concern. :) I have a basic setup for just keeping the clutter to a minimum, but I'm probably not going to use folder traversal to find things - I'll just search.
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Date: 2008-04-17 01:36 pm (UTC)The scanner will just keep adding scans to one PDF file until you say stop. So I have one file for 2004 BellSouth statements, for instance. (Named '2004.pdf' and placed in the 'BellSouth' folder, naturally.)
MacOS X 10.5's Preview app allows you to move, rotate or delete pages in a PDF, (and drag and drop pages between files,) so it's really easy to do some clean up afterwards if necessary.
And, the OCR software included adds text to the PDFs... which MacOS X's Spotlight then uses to make every PDF searchable.
If later I want to find all phone statements where I called a particular number, I just hit Cmd-space anywhere to fire up Spotlight, type in 'BellSouth (123) xxx-yyyy' and it'll return a list of all statements for BellSouth where I called that number. When I open them in Preview, the search terms are already highlighted for easy bouncing between hits.
Organizational filing isn't really a concern. :) I have a basic setup for just keeping the clutter to a minimum, but I'm probably not going to use folder traversal to find things - I'll just search.