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43 Folders has got a crazy (in a really good way!) conversation on building a document scanningworkflow for the Fujitsu ScanSnap

check this automated nerdery out, it's incredible:

"...These resultant pdf’s are then moved by the script to the main ‘files’ folder, where another python script...files them into subdirs based on financial year, or filename keywords for specific things like birth certificates etc. This ‘files’ dir syncs regularly with the same on my powerbook using unison - thus I’m always carrying all the family’s files, and can edit and rearrange as I like, and have these changes automagically propogated back to the server when I’m back on the home network. (On wakeup the pbook pings the server to make sure it’s present, then runs unison to sync in the background..."

There's a bunch of advice in there about getting documents into electronic OCR'd repositories that would put any law firm to shame.

I dream of this level of organisation...