If you haven't stumbled across Grant Griffiths excellent blog you should. It's called The Home Office Lawyer, and it overflows with useful tips for the solo and small firm practitioner. Check out his recent post on the new Fujitsu scanner, which he recommends.
I like it too, but I already have a Fujitsu scan-snap and if I were going to upgrade I would get one of the models that are TWAIN or ISIS compliant, so that I could scan from within the Acrobat program as opposed to having to use the scanner software. Fujitsu's basic scanners let you scan to PDF, but sometimes I wish that I could open a PDF file and scan on to the back of it (i.e. a correspondence file where you just keep adding pages to the back, or front). If you want to do that you need a scanner that is TWAIN or ISIS compliant, which only the higher end models are.
Anyway, go check out Grant's blog and tell me if you don't love the tagline: "A Mac. A blog. A home office. What more does a lawyer need?"
Thanks for the link and the great post about my blog.
Posted by: Grant Griffiths | November 14, 2006 at 06:59 PM
I really enjoy Grant's blog myself.
Posted by: Chuck Newton | November 15, 2006 at 01:01 AM
Grant, I've had a ScanSnap from the beginning. The lack of a TWAIN compliant driver can be a problem, especially if you are using practice management software and its built in document management system. However, starting with Time Matters version 6, users can save money by purchasing a ScanSnap as Time Matters places a TM Save button inside Acrobat. This allows you to save your pdf files directly into Time Matters without having to save as a pdf and then create a new Time Matters document record.
Keep up the great work.
Posted by: Nerino Petro | December 05, 2006 at 02:35 PM
I agree!! Although a great scanner, the lack of TWAIN compatibility usually leaves people out to dry as they grow in their scanning.
www.scanguru.com
Posted by: Steve | February 09, 2007 at 07:08 PM