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Organizing Documents Using iPhoto.

OSXFAQ Reader Tip By MO Almukhtar

Before OS X or 9.x I used PaperPort 5.1 in conjunction with the Visioneer Scanner to keep electronic copies of all my papers. I scanned receipts, bills, statements, etc.

Since switching to OS X I've lost all that functionality since neither PaperPort nor the Visioneer scanner are supported. I can probably get it to work under Classic but that still would only be temporary.

In any case, I couldn't find an app that would do the same for me in OS X. I started saving my scanned images as PDF's and just sorting them in folders and such, not elegant nor easy.

I decided to try something just for the hell of it, I launched iPhoto and tried to import a pdf document, guess what, it worked. The document showed up just like a jpg would. Again, this maybe be public knowledge and I just was living under a rock or something.

I was amazed that it worked. All I have to do now is import my documents in a separate iPhoto Library to keep the size down, put the files in albums, name them, and I'm done; I'd have a pretty good Documents Organizer.

Of course I can just scan them as jpg's, but I'd rather scan the documents, OCR them, pdf them, and put them in iPhoto so that I can open them in Acrobat Reader and copy text if I needed to.

Enjoy :-)

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