Monthly Archives: October 2009

The magic of Scansnap and Acrobat for OCR = Making Paper Disappear

I finally put together my wonderfully hungry Fujitsu Scansnap S1500M with a great little AppleScript droplet to drive Acrobat Pro to do the OCR on batches of documents. So I can finally do this: – Take a (physical) folder full of papers that I will never look at again, probably, but don’t want to lose [...]

The Strong Northerlies of Memory

Most of the time I feel happy with the exchanges of aging, and don’t really wish I could be my younger self. But I was just looking out the window, thinking about Fall weather and the winds on the water, and I remembered about 20 years ago when I was out on the water all [...]