Comment get a good scanner (Score 1) 3
Did this earlier this year. First step is to have a good double sided sheet fed scanner.. I got a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 ADF that is linux friendly. http://www.sane-project.org/ has a full list. gscan2pdf is a great piece of software that does most of the work.
For OCR - I basically only do on a windows virtualbox session with commercial software. Open source was not of sufficient quality at this point (although some people have had success with tesseract for OCR). I only do that on occasion. Most cases (receipts) I just use a good file name.
For sorting the scans I simply use a very good file name and folder name combination. Search via file or GNU locate works fine.
For backup I simply use bittorent sync plus a external hdd
For OCR - I basically only do on a windows virtualbox session with commercial software. Open source was not of sufficient quality at this point (although some people have had success with tesseract for OCR). I only do that on occasion. Most cases (receipts) I just use a good file name.
For sorting the scans I simply use a very good file name and folder name combination. Search via file or GNU locate works fine.
For backup I simply use bittorent sync plus a external hdd
