Reddit reviews Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i Portable Color Duplex Document Scanner for Mac and PC (Parent) ((1) Black)

Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i Portable Color Duplex Document Scanner for Mac and PC https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008HBFADQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_jIpRDb05W2VTT


i manage a tax accounting firm and we use these.

The Fujitsu Scansnap series is incredible for a desktop document feed scanner with a small footprint. The SI1300i is $260 on Amazon.. Depending on the scan quality, it's quite fast (up to 12 double-sided pages per minute), very compact, and, best of all, scans duplex (both sides of the page simultaneously).

Yes. I've currently digitized all of our minutes from when we were still a Masonic club September 22nd 1938 to February 7th 1952.

Fortunately all of our minutes from 1938 to at least the mid 60's are in typewriter books, think 3-ring binder kinda deal except longer sheets of paper and rather thick paper. Thick is the key here as I can feed it into a scanner with ZERO worry of them tearing. I bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i Mobile Document Scanner with my own money for doing this. I did the bulk of the scanning back in April or May when I was on vacation for a week, I've not scanned anything since, it's... a fairly time consuming task. Sure I watch TV while I do it but it's still pretty annoying. Take a page out, feed in, wait several seconds, catch paper, put back on binder, take page out, feed in, wait several seconds, catch paper, back on binder. Try doing that for an hour or two to get through 2-7 years depending on how many candidates/degrees/deaths/etc. Currently I just leave them in a PDF that makes up an entire typewriter book so I have September 22nd 1938 to June 27th 1946, July 11th 1946 to February 7th 1952, February 14th 1952 to March 29th 1956 and then April 4th 1956 to December 1959. This makes each PDF 100-110mb even after the maximum amount of compression I was happy with (they've also been OCR'd, but I'd say only 70% accuracy despite them being typed). Eventually I'll break them down by year.

Once I get through them all, my plan is to go through and harvest information from them (number of petitions/candidates/degrees/deaths etc by year) although our incoming WM wants to try and and give one of the bottom rung officer positions this responsibility, at least that's what he told me when he offered me the position (which I turned down).

For the signature books, you'll likely need to buy or make a scan stand and photograph every page. You'd then 'stitch' them together as a pdf.

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It's really fun to do, despite being boring, as you find all sorts of wonderful things. Like, I've found letters of speeches given at say our public cornerstone laying ceremony https://www.reddit.com/r/freemasonry/comments/3vektm/an_interesting_public_speech_given_for_my_lodges/

Yes, as u/outofshell says, let go of all your sunk cost angst. Good explanation: http://lesswrong.com/lw/at/sunk_cost_fallacy/

Paper clutter: scan and recycle (or shred if it has personal details).

Cheapest scanner = phone app

My scanner: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HBFADQ/

My shredder: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005QAQFFS/

Old Relationship clutter: scan or take a picture, then burn or lovingly discard (depending on the relationship)

I picked up a Fujitsu S1300i on eBay for $170 a few years back.

Your budget is too low. Well-engineered mobile business equipment that performs well, is not cheap. A decent portable business scanner alone will run over $200. Unfortunately, I don't think they make any mobile AIO multi-function printers anymore. (* See EDIT below) The HP OfficeJet 150 was the last one as far as I know.

For mobile scanning, the Fujitsu ScanSnap line is the gold standard. I have sold and used these for many years, and users have nothing but good things to say about them. The portable model is the S1300i, which currently runs about $250 with FREE shipping on Amazon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDewUljObg

https://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-ScanSnap-S1300i-Document-Scanner/dp/B008HBFADQ/

Equally capable is the excellent Canon P-215II which is about the same price and slightly smaller.

https://www.amazon.com/Canon-P-215II-Document-Scanner/dp/B00LPRQW86/

For printing, check out the Canon PIXMA iP110 which includes Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print and wireless capability. This printer currently runs about $150 on Amazon with FREE shipping.

https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Mobile-Printer-Airprint-Compatible/dp/B00NV9LL9Q/

I would absolutely recommend getting Amazon's amazing dirt-cheap product protection on both devices, to ensure against the possibility of damage or defects. 3-years of coverage is only $12 for the printer $18 for the scanner.

EDIT: Please see Scarcer's comment regarding the OfficeJet 250. This is the only mobile AIO on the market as far as I know. Good luck!

Here is the portable model: http://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-ScanSnap-Instant-Sheet-Fed-Document/dp/B008HBFADQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1373395709&sr=8-2&keywords=snapscan

I went with the smaller ScanSnap since my desk isn't all that big and I didn't want something that would be sitting out all the time.

http://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-ScanSnap-Instant-Sheet-Fed-Document/dp/B008HBFADQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1373342394&sr=1-2&keywords=snapscan

This was my most exciting purchase. I paid $12.99 for it at a local thrift store call ARC and it has all the parts, still in the original box with styrofoam in tact :D

I'm going to clean it up and send it in to FBA next week.

I went with a plaintext GTD system. It uses a plain text file for the task list. Depending on the text editor app of your choice, you might end up with a bunch of txt files or a single one to rule them all. (I use TaskPaper on Mac, so it's one file). They all get synchronized across DropBox.
http://plaintext-productivity.net/

I still have a lot of paper (post-its, receipts, memos, mail, etc) in my inbox, so I'm still not free from paper by any means. I also scribble and brainstorm on paper also. I usually take pictures of those and tag/organize them on Evernote.
For documents, people now just know to send those to me digitally, and for the last hold-outs, a document scanner digitizes documents quickly.
https://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-ScanSnap-S1300i-Document-Scanner/dp/B008HBFADQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485977666&sr=8-1&keywords=scansnap+s1300i

>Scan snaps

Like this one? https://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-ScanSnap-Portable-Document-Scanner/dp/B008HBFADQ/ref=sr_1_2?gclid=Cj0KCQjwsvrpBRCsARIsAKBR_0LWzWzMAISDZGb5eZGz_nGX9eZ32M_YlTTzx90ed1F1iDG19OWZQY8aAhabEALw_wcB&hvadid=350040079172&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9031974&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=13441542122965843885&hvtargid=kwd-389519890763&hydadcr=24665_10401006&keywords=scansnap&qid=1564426391&s=gateway&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008HBFADQ/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

I recently purchased this bad boy.

The scan to Evernote feature is fantastic and I've been able to organize all of that important paperwork that seems to pile up so quickly. I recently moved to a different state and last night I scanned in my car insurance paperwork, renter's insurance, misc. receipts for large purchases, job paperwork, etc. Organizing things within Evernote is an entirely different discussion, but so far this has worked well for me.