You probably don't use Windows 7, but I scan everything into TIFFs, which gets dumped to my filesystem.
I then have an ifilter (a Windows search plugin for a file format) for TIFF OCR, so I can do text searches on the scanned documents, using the built-in Windows Search functionality of Windows 7. It works much the same as Spotlight on Mac OS X.
Normally, I leave these scanned files in the dump directory, because the current Windows 7 iteration of Windows Search is solid. But occasionally, I use the "Libraries" feature of Windows 7 to organize things when they need to be.
At some point, I need to insert "convert into PDF" into this process but I'm lazy, It Just Works(tm), and haven't run out of disk space yet. PDFs would be searchable, too.
I used to use Evernote, but it's too cumbersome. You could probably do something very similar in Linux.
I'm cheap, so I occasionally bring my stack of papers to be scanned into work, chuck them into the auto-feeder of my work's scanner, and press "Go".
If I wasn't cheap, I'd buy a Fujitsu SnapScan. They seem to be rock solid and I know several people who swear by them. I wouldn't bother with the cheap little units like Doxie, a digital camera might be cheaper, there.
I then have an ifilter (a Windows search plugin for a file format) for TIFF OCR, so I can do text searches on the scanned documents, using the built-in Windows Search functionality of Windows 7. It works much the same as Spotlight on Mac OS X.
Normally, I leave these scanned files in the dump directory, because the current Windows 7 iteration of Windows Search is solid. But occasionally, I use the "Libraries" feature of Windows 7 to organize things when they need to be.
At some point, I need to insert "convert into PDF" into this process but I'm lazy, It Just Works(tm), and haven't run out of disk space yet. PDFs would be searchable, too.
I used to use Evernote, but it's too cumbersome. You could probably do something very similar in Linux.
I'm cheap, so I occasionally bring my stack of papers to be scanned into work, chuck them into the auto-feeder of my work's scanner, and press "Go".
If I wasn't cheap, I'd buy a Fujitsu SnapScan. They seem to be rock solid and I know several people who swear by them. I wouldn't bother with the cheap little units like Doxie, a digital camera might be cheaper, there.