Usage

The Popstar workflow consists of the following steps:

1. Initialize a new project by running the Shortcut Initialize Popstar for new project.

2. Start a new destination box by running the Shortcut Start new destination box.

3. Start a new destination folder by running the Shortcut Start new destination folder.

4. Take photos of documents to file into the current destination folder by running the Shortcut Take photo of document page.

5. Go back to step 3 when it’s time to start a new destination folder.

6. Go back to step 2 when it’s time to start a new destination box.

7. Go back to step 1 when it’s time to start a new scanning project.

Steps 2 and 3 each use the camera on the phone to take a picture of box or folder labels rather than document pages; the software uses optical character recognition (OCR) to transcribe any text it finds in the image and then uses the extracted text to create a folder hierarchy for the destination box and folder within the box. Step 4 step currently does not apply OCR to document pages, because we decided it would be better to leave that to a post-processing workflow. Instead, the third step only saves images of document pages.