Hello,
I just purchased the Scansnap ix500 and have it set up. I own a business (offering educational services / art and music lessons) and I have literally boxes and boxes of paperwork- from old bank statements to business documents to lesson plans. My goal is to get them all organized on the computer so I can shred the files- or at least get the on the computer for later organizing.
What I want to do is put a stack of papers in the scanner, then be able to take the pdfs, rename them, and sort them into folders. I don't want to have to pre-sort the papers before scanning them or only scan a page at a time.
I can only find two options- the entire stack scanned being turned into one pdf file, or have each page be a separate file. If I tell it to scan each page, it does not keep front/back pages together, which seems absurd. If I ask for each page to be a separate file, it still just lets me give one file name to the entire batch- I can't rename each document as its own file name if I scan 15 documents at once or preview the documents before assigning file names.
It looks like the "Scansnap Organizer" does what I want, but it is not available for Mac - which was not at all clear on their documentation. I am not sure what is the best way to manipulate these pdf files.
I almost bought the Neat Receipts but was turned off by the bad reviews. The documentation on the Neat software looks like it does what I want, but I am hesitant to spend $80 on it without trying it since the reviews are not so good. It also looks like it automatically sorts statements well. Has anyone tried it?
I downloaded the trial of DevonThink Office Pro thinking if I scanned directly to it I may be able to sort - it still sends either one 40 page document or 40 o page documents with the same file name over there.
Any suggestions - been wrestling with this for about 6 hours now and very frustrated.
I just purchased the Scansnap ix500 and have it set up. I own a business (offering educational services / art and music lessons) and I have literally boxes and boxes of paperwork- from old bank statements to business documents to lesson plans. My goal is to get them all organized on the computer so I can shred the files- or at least get the on the computer for later organizing.
What I want to do is put a stack of papers in the scanner, then be able to take the pdfs, rename them, and sort them into folders. I don't want to have to pre-sort the papers before scanning them or only scan a page at a time.
I can only find two options- the entire stack scanned being turned into one pdf file, or have each page be a separate file. If I tell it to scan each page, it does not keep front/back pages together, which seems absurd. If I ask for each page to be a separate file, it still just lets me give one file name to the entire batch- I can't rename each document as its own file name if I scan 15 documents at once or preview the documents before assigning file names.
It looks like the "Scansnap Organizer" does what I want, but it is not available for Mac - which was not at all clear on their documentation. I am not sure what is the best way to manipulate these pdf files.
I almost bought the Neat Receipts but was turned off by the bad reviews. The documentation on the Neat software looks like it does what I want, but I am hesitant to spend $80 on it without trying it since the reviews are not so good. It also looks like it automatically sorts statements well. Has anyone tried it?
I downloaded the trial of DevonThink Office Pro thinking if I scanned directly to it I may be able to sort - it still sends either one 40 page document or 40 o page documents with the same file name over there.
Any suggestions - been wrestling with this for about 6 hours now and very frustrated.
