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A few years ago I bought a SnapScan ix500. It's a high-speed, autofeed scanner. Whenever I have a stack of important documents, or ordinary bills, I put the sta
by gwbas1c 5y ago
A few years ago I bought a SnapScan ix500. It's a high-speed, autofeed scanner. Whenever I have a stack of important documents, or ordinary bills, I put the stack in the scanner, push the button, and they are scanned as a PDF.
I then move each scanned document into an appropriate folder. I have folders for bills, cars, instruction manuals, mortgages, receipts, taxes, ect. The folders are backed up on Google Drive, but I could also use Dropbox, Onedrive, iCloud, a NAS, USB key, ect.
If you're extremely lazy, there is some OCR and AI to try and infer filenames and make them searchable. In theory, you could just scan everything into a single folder and search it. (But I don't trust it.)
(I originally bought the scanner to scan old photos. Now I'm the goto guy in my family whenever anyone has a stack of photos they need scanned.)