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Steps for Creating a Paperless Home Office

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Simply configure your scanner software to use optical character recognition (OCR) to automatically turn every scanned document into a searchable PDF, which allows you to find documents by searching for words they contain. Many banks, utility companies, credit card companies, etc., all provide paperless statements.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

My scanner serves all these purposes -- scan a document in and you can then e-fax it over the internet, print out a copy, edit it directly through OCR software, save it as a PDF and toss the paper. Can't Live Without Google. Accept Credit Cards Anywhere, Any Time. It's my biggest space and time saver!