I was wondering if anyone has scanned their log books to organize and archive their finds. If so what software have you used?

I have eight of our books scanned in so far and I use the scanning software that came with the scanner for the start and MS Paint for cleanup and adjustments. I have also put copies of them on our tablet and they can be viewed at any time.

I have started with the software that came with the scanner and it works well. What I think would be nice is something that would auto crop the stamps and allow you to enter metadata to each image for AQ#, planter, caver, location, etc that can then be searched by any of the categories.

I never thought about the benefits of being able to pull it up on a tablet or phone, that would be great idea to be able to take to events or just to having with you.

I do I am kinda dreaming big right now but I think I should be able to find a auto crop software and some way to index them neatly in the mean time.

Some operating systems allow you to add tags to your files, but I usually just opt for a descriptive file naming system (in this case, probably something like "user cyaneus 70444.jpg" for people and something like "box_Box Name_state_planter.jpg" for boxes). This would allow you to use the "search" feature to enter part of the filename (such as the state or a username) and pull up a variety of boxes that contain that term.

Or perhaps sort them into separate folders. Either option requires a bit of a time investment to get all those files renamed and sorted.