autoimport from Scansnap after initial decline?

DEVONthink Tips
1

I checked the “Never ask again” box on the opening message about wanting DTPro to be the automatic destination for material scanned with my Scansnap and now I cannot figure out how to undo that.

I had assume it would be an option available in Prefs if I changed my mind, but I do not find it there.

Thanks.

2

The destination of ScanSnap output is covered in ScanSnap Manager Settings. Make certain that ‘Use Quick Menu’ isn’t checked. Then open ScanSnap Manager Settings and click on the ‘Application’ tab.

3

Thanks, Bill. I swear that when I tried this before the Applications tab in ScanSanp Settings was greyed out. Well, not this time. I made the change, and expected to see the pdfs in the Inbox but not so, and when I search for unique words in the pdfs they are not found.

4

I’m assuming that in ScanSnap Manager Settings > Application you had set ‘DEVONthink Pro.app’ as the chosen application.

Two questions:

  1. What’s the destination setting in DT Pro Office Preferences > Import - Destination? If Global Inbox, is the Global Inbox visible in the left Sidebar?

  2. In ScanSnap Manager’s Settings > Save tab, what’s the destination of scanner output? If sent to the ‘Inbox’ place, a non-searchable PDF will be sent to the Global Inbox. (The default setting in ScanSnap Manager > Settings > Save is your Pictures folder, which is fine.)

5

Bill,

The destination in DTPro is to the Inbox of the current database.

Scansnap is saving things to a folder called SCANS in Documents. Stuff went in there before I changed the Apps setting in Scansnap.

I’m going to run the documents through again and see what happens.