Fw: What laser printers do you like - Ricoh & Linux

[jrvz at comcast.net (James R. Van Zandt)]

John Abreau <john.abreau at zuken.com> wrote:
>   ...I've got a Ricoh IS100e scanner at work, and it works great as
>   far as scanning documents to pdf and emailing them to myself.
>
>   However, I'm looking for a decent way to manage the resulting documents.
>   For now, I drop them manually into a folder on a web server and add
>   some basic metadata to a text file. Then I have a DirectoryIndex script
>   to display the pdf files and associated metadata.
>
>   What would you recommend for document management? I tried SDMS already
>   ( http://sdms.cafuego.net ), but I was unable to get it to work under
>   apache 2.x.

I have put together a sizable collection of IEEE papers, but they're
image-only PDFs, making them hard to search.

Is there a convenient way to add the metadata to the PDF files
themselves, along with (say) a hand-typed abstract and OCR of the
rest, so the whole thing can be indexed by something like beagle
<http://beaglewiki.org/Main_Page>?  

              - Jim Van Zandt