Jennifer,
Though I'm neither Steven nor Wendel, I'll tell you what I do:
After you install the scanner and its software, if you haven't already during installation you can right click the blue hexagon in the quicklaunch bar and set your settings in the ScanSnap Manager: detailing where the file will be saved, color detection, compression, double sided scanning, etc.
Once it is set, any time you want to get a paper file into AC: 1.Load the document into the scanner (usually can hold 50 pages or so, but you can always reload more into it when it is almost done, and it could scan hundreds of pages into one file)
2. When it is done, it should automatically ask you what you want to do with it (send to file, send to email, etc)... just send it to a folder on the computer that you've already set as default ("Scanned files" or something).
3. name the file "Tom Jones chart" or "TJ progress notes" and "TJ labs" if you've scanned the paper file into different files/categories.
4. import the file (If you have the imported items page of the AC chart open, you can simply drag and drop the file from the "scanned files" folder to the AC imported items window... or just go through the step of importing by clicking on "import new" and easily browse for the file you want to import... my staff does the latter as they find it easier to name the item, categorize, and delete the original PDF)
It takes very little time to do this, limited only by the time it takes to scan the paper... which the ScanSnap does very quickly, bt 50 double-sided pages may take a minute or two.
-chris
