How to sort many scanned documents quickly?

[martin gifford]

Hi,
I'm a newbie.
I've decided to create a paperless office.
I've scanned about 2000 documents to jpegs.
I thought OneNote 2007 would help me easily sort them and cross reference
them, but I don't see how to do this.
I imported 50 jpegs to start with and I thought I could quickly copy them
into the relevent notebooks.
It would be great to just right-click a jpeg and then click on a listed
notebook to copy it to. Or something like that.
I guess I want a kind of fast labelling or flagging function so that I can
get everything on a particular topic quickly.
Is Access better for this? Or some other program?
Thanks,
Martin Gifford.

 

[Donato]

I have been using OneNote 2007 for some time and I think it is an excellent
program. Although you can scan documents into OneNote, I don't think it is
ideal for the type of application you have in mind. I use Nuance's PaperPort
for storing images of all my scanned documents. It allows you to create
directories and sub-directories and to scan directly into these. I scan all
my documents in as PDF's as you can email directly out of PaperPort. Check
out its features. OneNote is not designed for this type of functionality.

 

[bevanj]

Hi,
I'm a newbie.
I've decided to create a paperless office.
I've scanned about 2000 documents to jpegs.
I thought OneNote 2007 would help me easily sort them and cross reference
them, but I don't see how to do this.
I imported 50 jpegs to start with and I thought I could quickly copy them
into the relevent notebooks.
It would be great to just right-click a jpeg and then click on a listed
notebook to copy it to. Or something like that.
I guess I want a kind of fast labelling or flagging function so that I can
get everything on a particular topic quickly.
Is Access better for this? Or some other program?
Thanks,
Martin Gifford.

Try not to be discouraged from using ON as you suggest. I use the
application for exactly the purpose you identify (I have about 2000 entires
spread over 15 notebooks). Indeed, one of my notebooks is a home inventory.
Another is a daily diary. I abandoned PaperPort about 12 months ago (after
many years) and will never return to the program. ON 2007 is a delightful
piece of software and, for my purposes, the most useful application I have
ever experienced. Unfortunately, I cannot offer you any advice on the
shortcut you seek. I shouldered the pain of putting all my entries in
individually. For cross referencing I use hyper links extensively.