Scanner Drawer

It happend to all of us. You get some invoice by mail. You open the envelope, read it and put it "somewhere". Then half a year later you need that exact invoice to send the stuff back because it broke or whatever. Now you run around the house and search the bloody thing that never turns up again. (Until another half year later when it is too late)

With the scanner drawer you will never have that problem again. After reading the mail you simply feed it in to the drawer. The drawer stamps it with a serial number, scans it, runs ocr on it and feeds a search database with the keywords. Whenever the drawer is full it ejects all papers and tells you to put them (in that same order) in a box with the number N.

Now when you need the invoice you search you database and it tells you in which box it is and what number it has. Done you go to the box and simply fetch it.