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DEVONthink is the "paperless office" solution for the Mac, a central hub for all your paper and electronic documents. In addition to the steady inflow of emails, we still have and receive many printed documents. While it's a good idea to keep more recent hardcopies, we can't keep everything forever. Using the integrated scanner support you can scan documents, make them searchable through OCR (optical character recognition), and file them all directly in DEVONthink. You can scan single documents, including double-sided ones, multi-page documents, and scan multiple small documents like receipts. There is even a job queue where you can add information about several documents you need to produce, and have it run in a more unattended fashion. In addition to the internal scanning, you can send scans into DEVONthink from third-party scanning applications, e.g., ScanSnap Home. And if you have a collection of scans you need searchable in your database, you can add them via the Import > Images (with OCR) command that will add a steady stream of searchable documents into your database. Lastly, with a little setup between the Finder and our application, it is possible to use smart rules to add scans to a Finder folder and have DEVONthink detect, import, and OCR them automatically! Possible uses: Store your important documents, both personal and professional Archive invoices, offers, purchases, or software licenses Keep accurate records for legal and financial purposes Continue to read here: Scan paper documents Using smart rules for OCR on-the-fly Create a compliant audit-proof database for critical information