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Another option is the “clip to DevonThink” extension available to both Safari and Firefox users.

One such plugin is the DevonThink dashboard widget, which allows users to input notes quickly. DevonThink supports Apple Mail and Microsoft Exchange, as well as other popular Unix-based programs such as Mozilla Thunderbird.Īlthough DevonThink is a full-featured program, it comes with several ancillary plugins that extend its usefulness beyond the actual DevonThink program itself. One of the DevonThink’s other main features is its ability to archive emails through its import program. DevonThink also includes a number of smart groups (you can add others, too) for easy reference as well. The app contains a separate tag browser that makes finding files easier, provided that you tagged them when you imported them, of course. Tags are also prevalent throughout DevonThink and compliment the OCR scanned documents. The fact that the feature works as well as it does is equally important to its viability in an office setting. Assuming many offices do as I do and scan important documents into a hard drive, the ability to create searchable databases of thousands of physical documents is arguably the most important feature of DevonThink.

The OCR feature is huge for offices seeking to go paperless.

In subsequent testing the OCR feature worked as advertised. After importing the receipt into DevonThink, the OCR feature allowed me to search for the street address of the store and the other text on the receipt as well. The iPhone sales receipt includes information such as the street address of the store where I bought the phone, information that exists only on the scanned receipt and not in the file name or tags associated with the document. To do so, I imported my original iPhone 3G purchase receipt from 2008 into the application. As mentioned earlier, I routinely scan important documents into my Mac so I was eager to test this feature. The primary reason DevonThink can be valuable to paperless offices is its support for OCR, which translates text from scanned documents and PDFs into searchable text.