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Backup and Transfer ScanSnap Profile Settings

Posted on November 16, 2010 | Leave a comment

You want to move your detailed ScanSnap profile settings from one Mac to another one (or back them up), yet, the ScanSnap Manager has no built-in functionality to do so.

Not too surprisingly, profile information is stored in a preference file, but the trick is to know which one. The answer can be found here:

http://www.documentsnap.com/how-to-backup-your-scansnap-profile-settings-on-the-mac/

The file you are looking for is:

jp.co.pfu.ScanSnap.V10L10.plist

Simply copy it to the other Mac and you are all set.

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PDF OCR Batch-processing with ScanSnap

Posted on December 27, 2009 | 7 Comments

The ScanSnap S1500M (but also the S1500 as well as the earlier models S510 and S510M) comes with ABBYY FineReader for OCR support. This is great for creating searchable PDFs. Especially handy on a Mac with Spotlight. The problem is that in the default setup, each scan is OCRed right after the scan and depending on the age your machine (my G5 is getting a little long in the tooth) in can take quite a while. When you’re in the process of scanning many hundred’s of pages of paper documents, you don’t want to have to wait for the computer to do it’s OCR recognition, you’d rather feed it all the documents and let it do OCR while you’re doing something else. Continue reading →

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