Many Years Worth of Notebooks

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Started 2 years ago by JenGrier
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JenGrier
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Hello Unclutter-folk,

I'm trying to gauge the best way to deal with years upon years of school and personal notebooks. If they have 3-ring binder holes, I've tried to narrow them down into binders, but I still have so much. Some notebooks are bound, so it's a limited solution.

I think a lot of it would be OK to keep in digital format only, but I'm not sure about the best way to do this. I know you can pay some services to do the scan for you by shipping your [beloved] notebooks away in a box, and then hope that they do the scan well and that those notebooks get back to you (for proofing - yes, I would be that meticulous). Also, my notes are a good mixture of diagrams and text, so I'd like the scans to be a decent resolution.

Perhaps there is an at-home solution that would be best? I do not own a scanner [yet], but I would consider one if the group has a suitable suggestion.

Thank you for your thoughts!

- Jen

Posted 2 years ago #
charmed2482
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if you don't want to ship you stuff to someone then i think your best bet would be to buy a scanner. i don't know how much ours cost b/c my boyfriend paid for it, but its a wireless all in one. so i can move it to me while i am on the computer or whatever, and plug a flash drive into it and start scanning. i can do other stuff while its scanning and then either flip the paper over to do the other side or just put another one it. its also page fed which is nice, but it has a tendency to grab more than one sheet sometimes and i have to check them all really carefully if i use that part, or watch it to make sure it only grabs one sheet. so if you get something you can plug a usb stick into you can just scan while you watch tv or do other stuff.

Posted 2 years ago #
charmed2482
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or maybe enlist a friend with a scanner to help you, or offer to pay them, someone you trust to either come to your house and do it or take the notes and do it at their place.

Posted 2 years ago #
Bobbi
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I highly recommend a high-speed scanner. The ScanSnap (Fujitsu) is great and will make short work of your notes and worth every penny. I don't use mine for photos - I have a flatbed for them. I am in the process of going paperless and can't imagine giving up my high speed scanner.

Posted 2 years ago #
EraserGirl
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check your digital camera for a COPY setting
even many point and shoots have them now.

as long as the page is lighted you can shoot it (without flash)
and then later you can convert this photos to text
using Windows Document Imagining function.

Posted 1 year ago #

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