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sleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈 @0x47df@duckpon.de
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i'm getting the urge to do a thing...

my mum has ??? years of paperwork that she is against throwing away because it 'might' be useful

but to sort through it all means making lots of decisions.
so i wondered about a workflow involving a sheet feed scanner with a small number of buttons on it for network storage locations. something like "work", "household", "medical", and "other"... or something. i don't know .. it can be tuned right? it's just a first pass at sorting

then it can be eaten by paperless-ngx and get OCRd

i wonder if it's helpful, or if it's just throwing tech at a problem. i worry it's the latter.

what i didn't want to do was suggest bulk digitising and throwing it all away in one go, because then the problem has been moved from the physical domain to the digital domain...
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additional meis meiing meifully meihapsulating meibe @mei@amazonawaws.com
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@0x47df so I have actually done this! with a raspberry pi at my grandma's and only one push button.

it worked, and she thanked me a bunch but didn't actually want to use it. the usecase was a bit different in our case, but consider whether making it easier will actually create interest in fixing the problem or not.

it might be better to focus on minimizing document counts.
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