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bros, the ScanSnap iX500 is incredible
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:07 PM Author: Claret native I cut the binding off of one of my west forms books and scanned 1000 pages in about 5 hours
by the weekend, every form in that book will be a web form. fuck you, thomson reuters. |
Date: September 29th, 2015 1:09 PM Author: Claret native also, i'm running it on linux, which fujitsu doesn't support.
it took me two days to get scanbuttond to work, but i realized that clicking the button is too much work. now, as soon as i put something into the scanner tray, it automatically scans at 600 dpi. i have an imagemagick script that deskews it, finds the content, converts it to black white, and creates pdf output. |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:12 PM Author: Crystalline selfie i kind of want you to upload all the forms somewhere and then link it here, but right now i'm not practicing law and wouldn't have a use for them...possibly in the future, though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861226) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:19 PM Author: Claret native it's florida family law. i doubt you'll have a use for the forms.
the forms will eventually become public, though -- i'm developing my own free open-source practice management software system; i've talked about it a bunch on /r/Lawyers, if you're there |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:22 PM Author: Fragrant stag film blood rage 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861280) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:31 PM Author: Crystalline selfie this is 180 as fuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861345) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:24 PM Author: cheese-eating cerise address becky Awesome.
I'm thinking of soloing, and a kickass scanner is something that is at the top of the list of things I would get.
Now, I'm a linuxmo as well but wouldn't it be worth attaching this to a Windows machine? |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:27 PM Author: startling lay liquid oxygen i use it with windows. it is great litte scanner. the scansnap software OCRs it before saving to PDF as well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861313) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:31 PM Author: Claret native no, absolutely not. I actually installed a bootleg copy of windows 7 in virtualbox to initially get the software to run just so i could intercept the USB commands using wireshark on my desktop. it was a pain in the ass to debug SANE and scanbuttond.
the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 is the best scanner i've ever used. it will scan both sides of a page in about 4 seconds at 600 dpi, about 2 seconds at 300 dpi. imagemagick is literally the best tool you can be using for image conversion, but i'm not that good at it yet. for now, i'm using http://scantailor.org/ (the cli version) and then converting to a pdf. i scan about 100 pages at a time, then combine the pdfs.
here's example output from the florida forms: https://i.imgur.com/XSkjire.png
if you know anything about west's publications, you'll realize that the background color isn't white and the contrast isn't nearly that good. this can be ocr'd very easily. |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:39 PM Author: cheese-eating cerise address becky "no, absolutely not. I actually installed a bootleg copy of windows 7 in virtualbox to initially get the software to run just so i could intercept the USB commands using wireshark on my desktop. it was a pain in the ass to debug SANE and scanbuttond."
LOL, that's exactly the kind of bullshit I'd be looking to avoid. I'd personally just put up with windows instead of having to hack thing like this. Good for you though.
Imagemagick is sick, it would take a lot to become a masterman at it.
I've successfully used Hugin to stitch scans together that are larger than the scanner platen. I was doing it manually though, not sure if there is an easy way to automate it. |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:46 PM Author: Claret native it turns out that scanbd and sane work out of the box. you just have to be 100% certain your udev permissions are correct.
here's my /etc/udev/rules.d/40-saned file:
SUBSYSTEM!=usb_device, ACTION!=add, GOTO=libsane_early_rules_end
ATTRS{idVendor}==04c5, ATTRS{idProduct}==132b, MODE=0664, GROUP=scanner, OPTIONS+=last_rule, ENV{libsane_matched}=yes
LABEL=libsane_early_rules_end
there are a couple good guides online, if you're running debian. using the button on the scanner is bullshit; just configure it to start scanning when you load paper into the feeder |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:48 PM Author: Claret native oh, and USB3.0 and wifi aren't supported just yet. (that was about 4 hours of debugging) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861474) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:54 PM Author: Irradiated library Damn gj bro. Need a bizdev guy? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861523) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:55 PM Author: Claret native what exactly do bizdev guys do? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861533) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:56 PM Author: Irradiated library Shoot the shit with you, help you tap into markets, make sales, brainstorm. Nontechnical cofounder. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861540) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 2:02 PM Author: Claret native considering this is all open source, absolutely. my goal is to eventually create a market for the tech people to install maintain these types of systems. the legal sector shouldn't rely on bullshit proprietary software -- why should we trust lexisnexis, west, google, dropbox, amazon, and apple with our clients' data??
when i was in grad school, i remember asking my computer security professor whether he thought google would take advantage of useful information it gleans from the e-mails of biglawyers.
google certainly has the potential to develop deep learning algorithms that target precisely this type of info -- m&a shit, stuff that can actually affect stock prices. i doubt it'd even qualify as insider trading, because by using google's services, you give them the right to use your info to improve their services (which improving shareholder value surely accomplishes).
my prof just kind of stared at me and said "perhaps" before moving on to another topic. |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 2:15 PM Author: Irradiated library No firm uses gmail and I doubt very many publicly traded companies use gmail. Could be wrong. Either way lots of issues with what you're suggesting, despite it being a good idea bro.
Are you a COMPSCImo? Why are you now doing LOL scholarhsip brothe? |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 3:13 PM Author: Claret native columbia university's entire email system uses gmail (including the law school)
many companies pay for gmail |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 2:15 PM Author: maniacal tank rehab (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861710) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:26 PM Author: Fragrant stag film blood rage u paid 400 for that?
r u a solo op? |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:32 PM Author: Claret native yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861357) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 1:53 PM Author: Claret native i also bought http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B008I2O71K -- it's the best shredder i've ever used. if you're a solo using a virtual office, do NOT buy some cheap cross-cut shredder. it needs to be microcut. i spent about 5 hours reading all about shredders, and this one gives you the best bang for your buck. i believe it satisfies HIPAA's requirements for shredding. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861507) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 2:10 PM Author: Fragrant stag film blood rage What's ur shitlaw practice broski (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861644) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 3:14 PM Author: Claret native criminal defense & family law (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28862205) |
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Date: September 29th, 2015 2:13 PM Author: jet zombie-like mad-dog skullcap set Can't you just set stuff on fire for free? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#28861676) |
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Date: September 18th, 2018 8:35 PM Author: Fragrant stag film blood rage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#36836274) |
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Date: September 18th, 2018 8:36 PM Author: nighttime jet-lagged meetinghouse generalized bond $400 for a scanner...
and then again... no |
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Date: September 19th, 2018 6:32 AM Author: Claret native it's saved me over $10,000 in reference materials (treatises, practitioner guides, etc.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#36838682) |
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Date: September 19th, 2018 6:35 AM Author: sickened opaque juggernaut menage lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3004091&forum_id=2#36838685) |
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Date: September 19th, 2018 6:43 AM Author: Claret native In the three years since making this thread, I've vastly improved the software I've written to manage my law practice. I have thousands of forms and sample motions and wrote a library to automate the generation of routine pleadings. I draft the more complicated motions in markdown alongside my research notes and run a python script that renders it into LaTeX based on the document- and case-specific configuration files. The config files are written in YAML and specify case-specific stuff (party names, case number, courthouse, judge, judicial assistant, etc.) and document-specific stuff (title, spacing, header/footer contents, draft mode, etc.).
The next big step in development will be creating a web interface for support staff to use. I just haven't had much time to do the front-end crap, but it's becoming necessary since I'm starting to forget some of the command line tools I developed years ago. The web interface would eliminate the need for configuration files, because that information will be stored in the database rather than in config files. |