[OT] Going "paperless"

[The Natural Philosopher]

Its trivial to do something better than that heap of turds, but it might not LOOK so pretty. Or even so integrated.

[Tim Watts]

On Wednesday 09 January 2013 19:53 dennis@home wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Client side encryption? (With keys not available to the cloud company).

Otherwise it's a bit of a non starter, unfortunately - like Evernote.

[Tim Watts]

On Wednesday 09 January 2013 20:48 The Natural Philosopher wrote in uk.d-i- y:

I may have found a starter - and the type of programming needed to enhance it is probably within my grasp (have to relearn Java through).

OpenKM has a fairly nice web interface - all the AJAX you could want, pre- definable categories and the ability to add zero or more categories to a document.

It presents a category tree via the web nicely too.

It presents the "raw" tree (they call it the Taxonomy) of documents via WebDAV too, eg:

http://localhost:8080/OpenKM/webdav/okm:root/It can show the categories too:

http://localhost:8080/OpenKM/webdav/okm:categories/Unfortunately, it shows the categories but not the files linked to them. I suspect this is a solvable problem in the source code. I'll ask in the mailing lists.

So my money is, I'd probably start there and fix the missing features - the core seems very well built.

[alan]

The smart people would touch a cloud with personal data.

What happens when the company goes bust or taken over by Nigerian interests?

[dennis]

Don't panic! Even the iPhone only does 640x1156 pixels. The galaxy note 2 is 720x1280.

There are some full HD tablets about but not on phone sized stuff.

How about a new nexus 2560x1600?

[Dave Liquorice]

[Andy Burns]

The way you say "even" the iPhone, makes it sound as though that's the pinnacle of phone technology ;-)

Quite a few 4.x inch phones last year were 1280x768 or 1280x768

Several 5" phones available (or recently announced) ZTE grand S HTC J-Butterfly, and Droid DNA Sony Xperia Z, and Xperia ZL Alcatel Scribe X Panasonic P-02E LG E940

That's 10" though, but there are apparently 20" 3840x2160 prototype tablets doing the rounds at CES2013!

[Andy Burns]

One of those should read x720

[Tim Watts]

On Wednesday 09 January 2013 21:33 alan wrote in uk.d-i-y:

That's what I meant...

"Smart" as in "not touch with a 10 foot pole"

[Tim Watts]

On Wednesday 09 January 2013 22:11 Dave Liquorice wrote in uk.d-i-y:

No - just the general form of what it presents.

It could work though - all you have to do is install it ;->

[Frank Erskine]

I wouldn't trust _any_ ISP with custody of my data. Just look at networked, mainly Government, data systems with all their leaks... I'd rather store it all on a single machine without internet or similar access. Granted this reduces accessibility of data, but I think that's a price worth paying.

[Apellation Controlee]

Depends on the scanner. If you're thinking in terms of a typical consumer flatbed scanner then you're right, but there are scanners capable of high throughput.

Documents still need tagging, though, if they're to be retrievable with anything approaching ease.

[Tim Watts]

On Thursday 10 January 2013 18:53 Apellation Controlee wrote in uk.d-i-y:

I've gone for OpenKM - bit of a bitch to install but working nicely with on- web document previews.

Re scanner - yes, it's a close call. Mine does Scan2email but not FTP (which some of the even more expensive Samsungs can). What it does do, that phone cameras don't is make nice PDFs of a set of pages of my choosing - which keeps stuff neat, even if the PDFs are just wrappers around a load of images.

I've just implemented a server side mail filter that if I scan to a certain email address, the attachement(s) get dumped to an NFS filesystem where I can easily load them up and tag them.

If I could work out how, I would like to go for direct injection which would make the process uber smooth.

But so far so good...

[dennis]

That's easy, my brother AIO will do that to email and USB stick without being connected to a computer it may do FTP but I haven't tried that.

Using the computer will allow OCR and the creation of searchable PDFs which the OS can index.

[Apellation Controlee]

A second-hand HP Digital Sender can scan around 20 sides of A4/minute and squirt them across the network to a folder on a PC or server.

Should also be able to send direct to Evernote, although I haven't yet bothered to try that.

[Tim Watts]

On Friday 11 January 2013 07:14 Apellation Controlee wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Sorry - I meant "inject direct into OpenKM" (to cut out the manual import step). OpenKM lets you preview office docs, PDFs and image files in the browser so you can give them sensible names at that point.

One more reason not to touch Evernote - or any cloud provider, unless you have client side encryption:

[Apellation Controlee]

I don't see why this wouldn't be possible by one means or another.

The only 'snag' I'm aware of is that the Digital Sender app running on the PC will need to be run in compatibility mode. It doesn't run on Win7 (although it's fine with XP).

Linux? YOYO.