It’s perfect! Do you guys already do this?

I open a letter, I take it’s picture with FairScan. The FairScan-folder on my android device gets syncthinged to the ingest folder for Paperless-ngx on my “server”. Paperless imports it, deletes the file and sets the new documents tag to inbox. I decide if the document goes to the binder for important stuff, or if I just toss it in a binder with all the paper I most likely will never touch again. Next time I look at Paperless, I edit all documents with the inbox tag and remove the tag.

  • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
    6·
    15 hours ago

    You could buy an automatic scanner that takes a stack of docs and dumps the files to a network share.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      14 hours ago

      Do you have any particular model in mind? What do you mean by “automatic scanner”? Any scanner I know needs quite a lot of manual preparation to scan a batch of documents.

      • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
        3·
        13 hours ago

        Epson WorkForce DS‑730N

        put 100 sheets on the tray, it scans them all and either puts them all into a single pdf or multiple pdfs. Then you split / merge them in software.

        • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          13 hours ago

          Not very automatic, is it? There are definitely better ways to scan high volumes of documents.

            • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              12 hours ago

              You can use e.g. barcodes, patch codes or separator sheets (which usually carry the patch code). Sometimes you can also separate documents by recognising some feature on the first page, e.g. a logo or a barcode that’s already there. And of course it’s a good idea to put single page documents in a separate batch so you just separate them by page count. This of course also works if all documents are two or three pages long.

              • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
                3·
                11 hours ago

                afaik you just listed features that the printer I mentioned (or if I am wrong, other similar printers) supports

                it’s my bad for not mentioning all possible workflows, I was just a bit lazy and thinking of my personal documents only, which do not work well with further smart automation, because my batches are highly irregular. So the more manual approach is the best for me currently. Maybe possible with some future AI integration.

                • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  10 hours ago

                  Most of those features are implemented in the scan software on the PC, not on the scanner itself. Although there is a tendency to integrate more and more features in the firmware, which is not always a good idea. Also, if you’re scanning low volumes, I’d say doing the separation before the scan is generally more efficient. At least that’s how I do it. But that’s just me, of course. I wasn’t in any way trying to criticize your approach. If it works for you, it’s great.