Scanning important documents

[davemchine]

After reading the stories of Maui and I'm considering scanning important documents. I already have ScannerPro from Readdle and I have dropbox. Is this adequate or is there a better way to handle this?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scanner-pr...patibility.

[gadje]

I have not used dropbox in about 10 years but I assume they have strong security. I would still suggest to encrypt the files.

[jdc]

Seems like a great plan.

No one can access your Dropbox but you it’s password protected. Same with iCloud one drive Google Drive or any of the other cloud-based drive services

[Ken Sp.]

If you’re going to scan a lot of documents, I cannot recommend strongly enough the Fujitsu Ricoh ScanSnap device. They have a few models.
Fujitsu always kept and keeps the software up-to-date with the macOS releases.
I hope Ricoh does the same.

[Michael]

I've been using Evernote Scannable app on my iPhone. It looks like it does the same as your ScannerPro. I use Google Drive as well as iCloud to store things. I like redundancy!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evernote-s...d883338188

[Fritz]

our important docs are scanned. AIO Canon MF 4350 (no longer All, just one).
did so mostly coz I wanted to get rid of paper pile up.

I used to store those with Tresorit, and still do with some more current stuff. They had 15G of free space.
Now I use iDrive for everything. $100/yr 10TB. 256 AES encrypted.
I don't have 10TB of stuff here, even with all the music, film and TV.
Dropbox became kind of a pita about 5 years ago.

And of course backed up locally, with CCC and some d&d.

[Robert M]

Davemachine,

All of my important documents are stored in hardcopy _and_ digital format. The digital copies are stored in backed up in at least two, sometimes three locations. Like Ken, I'll vouch for Ricoh (formerly Fujitsu) Scansnap desktop scanners. They are rock solid, awesome products. Highly recommended.


I didn't realize PFU (aka Fujitsu) joined the Ricoh family of companies/products last year. They are still updating the Scansnap software regularly, so I'm hoping that nothing will change over time.

I have an iX5000 at home and an iX6000 at my office. They are both used at least once or twice every couple of days. Once you have one of these, you'll never want to use the scanner in an all-in-one again, not even if said machine offers single-pass duplex scanning. The performance of the Scansnap software and hardware are that good.

I still wish they'd release a Scansnap version of the SP-1425:

https://www.pfu-us.ricoh.com/scanners/fi/sp-1425

The one thing missing with the Scansnap series of scanners is a model that has an ADF _and_ a flatbed. The SP-1425 has both. It just isn't a Scansnap model and, unless something has changed recently, doesn't work with the Scansnap software.

Robert

[Gilbert]

Unless you encrypt your files before uploading them to Dropbox (or any other cloud provider) they are viewable to the cloud provider.

https://help.dropbox.com/security/file-access

jdc wrote:
Seems like a great plan.

No one can access your Dropbox but you it’s password protected. Same with iCloud one drive Google Drive or any of the other cloud-based drive services

[ka jowct]

Depending on how many documents you need to scan and what kind of documents, doing the scanning with an app for your phone or tablet may be inadequate/frustrating. I have Scannable and FineReader on my iPhone and iPad for quick scans.

If you need or want double-sided scanning, a little document scanner like some of the SnapScan models would be less awkward to work with. I have a very compact one (Fujitsu 1300-something?) that I use every year for docs related to taxes. My elderly Epson flatbed got some use this year for more fragile items from an album of old documents and photos that I ended up with after my dad died.

You can also get fireproof containers for documents. Might be worth having something like that for storage of important documents once they’ve been scanned.

[S. Pupp]

pCloud has an optional crypto folder. Encryption/decryption happens on your device, and is a zero-knowledge setup. pCloud has a lifetime one time purchase option, if you prefer not to go with a subscription. I’ve been using pCloud since 2016 and got the lifetime plan with crypto in 2019. I have 4TB of storage available. I don’t miss dropbox.