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You can categorise those documents, tag them, OCR them, search them. Access them on phone or any other device with browser.

nojito 5y ago
How is that any different from Onedrive/iCloud/etc?
h0l0cube 5y ago
I'm looking at this ecosystem and wish I'd seen it sooner. I've been using the Google Drive Android app to scan documents. It does auto-cropping and perspective correction, but it doesn't OCR, and I manually rename the files so that I can order them by date and cross reference with my banking transactions. With OCR I might at least be able to extract some useful data and avoid some tedious data entry.
einpoklum 5y ago
1. If I need a browser to access them, that's very similar to "can't access them". Do you expect my programs to start browser sessions to access files? Will my file manager have to connect to that silly web server? 2. I can't effectively OCR them for many non-English language (at least - unless it's made some advances in OCR for some languages for which it's lacking). Also, if I do OCR anything, I then need to correct the mistakes, which takes a h-u-g-e amount of time even when the OCR works relatively well.
- ishi 5y ago
  You seem to come at this useful tool with a very negative mindset. - The scanned documents are stored in the filesystem in PDF format, so you can certainly access them without going through the web application. - OCR doesn't have to be perfect, because it's just being used to locate a specific document when you need it. So if you have 1788 documents and you want to find your apartment lease, you search for "lease" and there's a very good chance that word will be found in the correct document. That's the whole point - storing documents with a low amount of manual effort, in a way that makes it very easy to find them when you need them.
  - KennyBlanken 5y ago
    Yeah, that guy is being a tool. "WHY IS THIS THING I REFUSE TO SPEND EVEN A FEW MINUTES BOTHERING TO RESEARCH, SO BAD?!"

nojito 5y ago

How is that any different from Onedrive/iCloud/etc?

h0l0cube 5y ago

I'm looking at this ecosystem and wish I'd seen it sooner. I've been using the Google Drive Android app to scan documents. It does auto-cropping and perspective correction, but it doesn't OCR, and I manually rename the files so that I can order them by date and cross reference with my banking transactions. With OCR I might at least be able to extract some useful data and avoid some tedious data entry.

einpoklum 5y ago

1. If I need a browser to access them, that's very similar to "can't access them". Do you expect my programs to start browser sessions to access files? Will my file manager have to connect to that silly web server? 2. I can't effectively OCR them for many non-English language (at least - unless it's made some advances in OCR for some languages for which it's lacking). Also, if I do OCR anything, I then need to correct the mistakes, which takes a h-u-g-e amount of time even when the OCR works relatively well.

ishi 5y ago
You seem to come at this useful tool with a very negative mindset. - The scanned documents are stored in the filesystem in PDF format, so you can certainly access them without going through the web application. - OCR doesn't have to be perfect, because it's just being used to locate a specific document when you need it. So if you have 1788 documents and you want to find your apartment lease, you search for "lease" and there's a very good chance that word will be found in the correct document. That's the whole point - storing documents with a low amount of manual effort, in a way that makes it very easy to find them when you need them.
- KennyBlanken 5y ago
  Yeah, that guy is being a tool. "WHY IS THIS THING I REFUSE TO SPEND EVEN A FEW MINUTES BOTHERING TO RESEARCH, SO BAD?!"