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I have a canon 2022 i fax/copier/scanner machine. Tried to use this to electronically receive faxes. The problem is the labs usually send many patient faxes in a batch, so I am unable to sort the labs and had to go back to manually scanning them. Would adobe acrobat professional be able to sort these labs by patient name? Is there any other program I should be looking at? Would appreciate any help in this regard. Thanks.

I go through them and print page by page to cutePDF to create individual docutments,labeled by patient and contents. You could export pages with acrobat, I find it is easier to print to PDF.

Using Paperport, I or my staff unstack the batch then restack for each patient.

Thanks for the reply. I have never used cutpdf, paperport or adobe acrobat pro. Is it faster to use these and go through electronically filed labs/ faxes. Or is recieving paper faxes and manually scanning them into pts. charts faster?
Appreciate any input.

Much faster to use paperport or cutepdf

Much faster to look at them electronically and saves a lot of trees. But it does make your butt look bigger because you are not always having to get up and chase down the papers.

Manually scanning them and filing them is waaaaaaayyyyy slower plus you would have to hire another employee. (Well 0.4) or something. Big waste of time.

I have Adobe Acrobat Pro. Why? Because I always have to have the best. (this is a criticism -- not bragging). All of the 3rd party programs are great. There is a new NitroPDF I have seen. But cutePDF and uglyPDF can all edit and move pages around. Paperport is great for that. Most can't do high tech OCR and separate pages by name. I doubt any can.

Do you have a choice of labs in your city? We only have one, but they still help us with this. Since they bath the labs, it made it difficult when we received faxes to the desktop to know if it were one patient or five. But, now they send a cover page with ALL the names of the patients on them, so the staff knows they have to separate them. They do this ONLY for us. Why? Because we asked, and they want our business. It takes one minute to separate PDF pages.

BOTTOM LINE: YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR FAXES COME IN DIRECTLY TO YOUR SERVER OR ONE OF THE COMPUTERS. To print a sheet of paper off, then scan it, then shred the paper is just....well...not efficient or cost efficient.