Sanning Docs into google drive

I don't think there is a way to cause the scanner to save the documents to the google drive, but you could manually save them there yourself once they have been scanned and saved locally. If you already know the destination folder where the scanned images are saved locally, then you can still create folders on the google drive using your alphabetical system and save the scanned images to the matching folders on the google drive. I am not sure if there is a way for you to automate this process and it will likely require you to manually save each file you want to be saved according to your alphabetical arrangement. I save photos from my smartphone on google drive to access them from my PC browser and save them locally on my PC. I suggest scanning the images to the destination folder, then moving them to the google drive individually and organizing the folders however you want with regard to the alphabetical arrangement. Good luck.

It depends on the scanning software. For example, Xerox ConnectKey Share supports the Xerox WorkCentre 7830:
http://www.office.xerox.com/software-solutions/xerox-connectkey-share-to-cloud/enus.html

Likewise, the Neat scanner offers NeatConnect:
http://www.neat.com/helpcenter/neatconnect-adding-scan-destinations/

It's likely that your other desktop scanner has TWAIN and/or WIA drivers, which means that popular document image/scanning software supports it, and many of those can scan to cloud services. For example, Nuance's PaperPort 14.5 offers the Nuance Cloud Connector, which supports Google Drive (and many other cloud services). It may also be upgraded to an enhanced version called Gladinet Cloud Desktop Professional.

Another example is Lucion's FileCenter, which I do not own, but claims that "Scanning to the cloud becomes so transparent and automatic, FileCenter doesn't even require a separate feature to do it."

Regards, Joe

Looks like that software will require a little bit of house cleaning after everything is scanned in, I was hoping for a software package that could run on system and do the clean up of sending the scans to appropriate folder base of name or even better create a folder with the name of the doc to the google drive .... Are those wishes a bit out of reach??

> sending the scans to appropriate folder base of name

How will the software know what the "appropriate folder" is? Using the example in your original post, it needs to determine if a scan is for the abc or def or ghi folder. Do you want it to figure that out via OCR on the document and finding the folder name in the content (the OCR'ed text)? Or via a separator page with a bar code or QR Code (specifying the folder name) that you put on top of the doc before scanning? Or tell it manually (on every scan) where to put it? Or some other way?

Starting to seem this project may be a bit bigger than first expected also each employee will be scanning in their own files so I will definitely deal with the learn curve of each user ... so looks like I am back at square one, the company doesn't want to pay an outside company to come in and do all of this but possible I could have the employees scan everything in and I do all the house cleaning manually.... Any suggestions?

I could certainly have some suggestions, as there's a lot of commercial software in this arena and I have written many custom programs in this arena. But first you'll need to answer the questions in my previous post. Regards, Joe

Sorry about that Joe, well If our Xerox printer/ scanner can use OCR and determine the name of the client on the first page of the document that would be great but I am not 100% sure it can do it and if it could would the scanner then place each document in the folder or does the ocr work like the scanner scan it in, then the software runs on a pc and organize the documents in a designate folder.  As you can see my knowledge on this is not that great but willing to do anything to get this project done ....Hopefully this answer your question.... really I am game to use any process to get this done