![]() Update: In the EagleFiler 1.8.14 Changelog I spotted an interesting improvement that sounds like it’ll help with that. I did have some other issue with putting it in iCloud Drive but that was mostly related to ScanSnap not being able to deal with long file paths and a workaround was swiftly explained by the developer in the support forum. ![]() In my first iteration I stored my “EagleFiler Library” directory in iCloud Drive and suspected that that’s a problem but it seems to only be related to ABBYY accessing the file at the same time. I was able to scan 100 documents without it showing up. With this glue component everything now works without a hitch and the ABBYY error message never showed up again. I resolved the issue by using Hazel to monitor the “Incoming Scans” folder and moving the file to EagleFiler’s “To Import” directory once the file was processed by ABBYY FineReader and received its _OCR.pdf suffix. My guess is that this is some kind of race condition if multiple apps try to access the same file. I contacted the - very helpful and quick to respond - ABBYY support but they said the issue isn’t known after escalating it. Unfortunately I had issues with that as then ABBYY FineReader complained that it can only work on files directly coming from ScanSnap or failed with the following obscure error message. ScanSnap is configured to hand over its scanned documents directly to ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap which performs OCR and stores the resulting file in the mentioned Incoming Scans directory.ĮagleFiler has a special watch directory called “To Import” located in its library directory ( ~/Documents/EagleFiler Library in my case) which promptly imports files thrown in there into its internal library. Right now I have the included scanner software (ScanSnap Home) set up to scan directly into a directory ( ~/Documents/Incoming Scans). One relevant example: Importing from a Scanner The site has a very exhaustive help section documenting every distinct feature of the app. This, to me, is very important for a software that should keep my documents safe and accessible for a long time.ĮagleFiler libraries use an open format: regular files and folders that are fully accessible to your other applications. ![]() It’s from a reputable developer (and blogger) who’s apps have been around for a long time.ĮagleFiler makes having a open format a feature and not just an afterthought. Step 2: OrganizingĮven before starting this project I played around with EagleFiler and enjoyed it. Its predecessors were well regarded and while everyone agreed that the software was not particularly beautiful it did its job well enough. I spent some time reading reviews and in the end decided on buying the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1500. That means that at a higher level my setup consists of three parts: A scanner, software to organize documents and a shredder to destroy the documents before throwing them out. No closed source or proprietary archiving format / container.A way to tag and organize documents by topics or categories.Easy way to fulltext search through all documents.Before starting my research I narrowed it down to a number of features that I deemed non-negotiable: The obvious solution was to look into a good setup for a paperless “office”. Having them in a big binder makes it very hard to quickly find a document that you know you have somewhere. Invoices, warranty certificates or insurance status updates are likely not necessary to have in their original paper form. After a while it was clear that a lot of them are not important enough to keep around. Recently I looked at my increasingly large pile of important documents and decided to make sorting them a small project.
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