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# paperless
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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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* There's no search feature
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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
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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](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
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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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