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I owe you - the visitors to this thread - a warning. While photocopying and processing images is fun, the fun ends when you have to save and file the final pdf. You must give a meaningful name to every document and file it in a proper directory/folder. It is easy for a 500 page book. It is boring for 500 single sheet documents.

I always save my documents with a name starting with current date in the format 20071012 xxx yyy zzz, where xxx etc. are meanigful keywords like "letter from ..." etc. Although it is easy to find an indexed document by searching the key words (key words rather then keywords - adding keywords would be another boring and time consuming step), sometimes you find thousand of documents referring to a similar subject. The date helps to find the document you are looking for, sometimes even without the index search but by simple looking at or searching the names in a directory. Total Commander is a very useful tool for that.

Unfortunately, we cannot avoid this time consuming manual step of giving names to digital documents unless we delegate this job to our secretaries. I do it myself, since I am the only one who takes decisions on processing the document contents. The secretary classifies and files the documents in a traditional way, but we rarely need to rertrieve them physically from paper document folders.