You can drop a multi-page document into its feeder, push a button, and it’ll proceed to scan both sides of the entire document with pretty amazing speed. It’s an older model, but it has worked solidly for several years and it has been worth every penny I paid for it. So, what do I do when I actually get paper? Needless to say, I scan it, but it’s how I scan and how I manage my documents after that where things get kind of interesting. I think for most of my electronic documents, about half a dozen machines in something like three or four states would all have to implode simultaneously for me to actually lose something – and those include not just my machines but some that are owned by some pretty large companies. With electronic documents, you can have as many copies as you care to create. With paper, unless you burn more paper with a copy machine, you have exactly and only one copy. One of the biggest reasons I do this is that I can do something with bits much more easily than I can with paper: I can back them up. Bills, receipts, and much more come to me in the form of bits rather than on sheets of paper. I get documents electronically whenever possible. I’ve talked and written before about how I strive to be as paperless as possible. I used to, very carefully and manually, scan documents, name files, put them in organized folders and so on. My document management approach has changed over the years.

Change scanned document info