During my week off between jobs I took the plunge to a paperless home office.
After reading about Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500
and getting rave reviews from my friend Dan, I ordered one from Amazon.com
. This machine can do duplex, color, and OCR into a PDF. For ~$450 it comes with Adobe Acrobat Standard
which is a $252 by itself.
Now it's time to scan and shred.
After reading about Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500
Now it's time to scan and shred.
The scanning was amazingly simple to do with the software included with the ScanSnap. First go around I set up the scanner to OCR while it was scanning. With my old laptop this was really slow, but not to worry the software has a background OCR process. Just turn-off the immediate OCR option and while the computer is idle your files will be OCR'd. I burned through thousands of pages in a few days and eliminated four storage boxes of records.
I started out with a Staples 8 sheet cross cut shredder, but with this amount of paper I was not 100% sure it would make it through. It overheated twice and I was just getting started. Once the paper is confetti it went into my "kind-to-the-earth," partially recycled, Seventh Generation Kitchen Trash Bags.
Fast forward - I remembered reading about Westchester County having a mobile shred truck. A little searching online and I found a shredding day this past Saturday. The county employees were friendly and helpful; my waiting in-line plus shredding took less than 15 minutes. I didn't have to throw out the confetti and my shredder didn't melt down.
4 boxes shredded.