Paperless at home

[cjsmith]

I'm one of those people who mulls over an idea for a long time and then (as far as others can tell) makes a sudden big decision.

My current idea is going paperless at home.

Comments

[dafydd.livejournal.com]

The biggest problem I have with being paperless at home is filling out forms. For years, I've wanted a software that could take a scanned image, or pdf, identify the fields that need to be filled out, and provide me with an electronic document that I can fill out and print.

Acrobat has the ability to fill out forms electronically, but the form fields have to be defined by hand. Ick!

[dcart.livejournal.com]

I used to work for a software company that made a product like that, but the technology was a long, long way from being consumer grade affordable.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If I need to print it either way, I wouldn't mind printing it before filling it out and then scanning it again afterward.

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

I create .bmp documents and fill them out that way. It's not an elegant solution but since I can no longer hand-write anything, it's better than nothing.