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Ubuntu - paperless office on a budget

Since paper and myself have never gotten on well I have always been dreaming of a paperless office. A while ago I purchased a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 scanner for the office. I did this after doing some research on which Automatic Document Feed (ADF) multipage & duplex scanners were both affordable as well as supported on Linux.

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It took a while for me to get around to set all of this up, but the result now is that this scanner is connected to a headless Ubuntu VM and the press of the scanner button will:
  1. scan the document
  2. perform OCR to convert to text
  3. combine the text with PDF to create a searchable PDF
  4. OPTIONAL – send the resulting document into Alfresco Document Management Server via FTP

Install dependencies

NOTE: PPA is only required for support of Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-git<br></br>sudo apt-get update<br></br>sudo apt-get install sane sane-utils imagemagick tesseract-ocr pdftk libtiff-tools libsane-extras exactimage wput

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