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Simple Doc Organizer Free Edition Specifications
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Organize, index, and store your local and scanned documents.
So you're in business, and you've got a PC and a scanner. You're dutifully scanning and saving all your business documents (hopefully not jumbled together in your scanner's default archive). Simple Doc Organizer Free Edition is a free document organizing utility designed specifically for small- and medium-size businesses. It makes it easy to store and find your scanned, saved, or imported documents.
We downloaded and extracted the program's zipped installer, which then downloads and installs the program files. We also had to disable our User Account Control settings, which required a reboot. A Configure Wizard then walked us through the process of setting up SDO, including setting user names and passwords for remote access and the program's archive, if needed. SDO has an attractive, efficient, tabbed interface based around a central Dashboard displaying pie graphs for Documents and Dossier/Folder holdings, similar to the disk space display in Windows. A left-hand Document Tree displayed our Archive holdings, while each selection's holdings and stats showed up in a right-hand Properties panel that we could keep open with a pushpin. SDO offers various search options, including a Quick Search feature, and we could quickly toggle between full and panel views. From the program's toolbar, we could import documents and data via scanner, browsing in Windows Explorer, or by adding templates, and export data to SAR (Simple Archive Reader), PDF, or by browsing in Explorer.