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# paperless
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Scan, index, and archive all of your paper bills
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Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents
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I hate paper. Environmental issues aside, it's a tech person's nightmare:
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@ -7,12 +7,20 @@ I hate paper. Environmental issues aside, it's a tech person's nightmare:
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* It takes up physical space
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* Backups mean more paper
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In the past few months I've been bitten more than a few times by the problem of not having the right document around. Sometimes I recycled a document I needed (who keeps water bills for two years?) and other times I just lost it... because paper. I wrote this to make my life easier.
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In the past few months I've been bitten more than a few times by the problem
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of not having the right document around. Sometimes I recycled a document I
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needed (who keeps water bills for two years?) and other times I just lost
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it... because paper. I wrote this to make my life easier.
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Here's how it works:
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1. Buy a document scanner like [this one]().
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2. Set it up to "scan to FTP". This means you can use it without being connected to a running computer. It will just scan the document and save it as a PDF on a server in your house.
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3. Setup a cronjob on that server to use *paperless* to OCR the PDF and index it into a local database.
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1. Buy a document scanner like [this one](http://welcome.brother.com/sg-en/products-services/scanners/ads-1100w.html).
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2. Set it up to "scan to FTP". This means you can use it without being
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connected to a running computer. It will just scan the document and save it
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as a PDF on a server in your house.
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3. Setup a cronjob on that server to use *paperless* to OCR the PDF and index
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it into a local database.
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4. Use the web frontend to sift through the database and find what you want.
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5. Download the PDF you need/want via the web interface and do whatever you like with it. You can even print it and send it as if it's the original. In most cases, no one will care or notice.
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5. Download the PDF you need/want via the web interface and do whatever you
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like with it. You can even print it and send it as if it's the original.
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In most cases, no one will care or notice.
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