Bulk scanning in Los Angeles (buy, cost, office)

[IamaGoodCitizen]

I am going everything digital. I am planning to scan all my papers (both personal and work related) and then discard them. In Office Depot, they said they charge 25 cents per page. I have more than 300 papers to scan. I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on this. Are there any other place in LA they do the bulk scanning cheaper than this?

Thanks.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by IamaGoodCitizen

I am going everything digital. I am planning to scan all my papers (both personal and work related) and then discard them. In Office Depot, they said they charge 25 cents per page. I have more than 300 papers to scan. I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on this. Are there any other place in LA they do the bulk scanning cheaper than this?

Thanks.

buy a printer/scanner or just a scanner and do it yourself.

[ut new]

Too much work. And it's a great at-home job for many people. I'm looking for someone to do it also, on the west side.

[vincenze]

Originally Posted by IamaGoodCitizen

I am going everything digital. I am planning to scan all my papers (both personal and work related) and then discard them. In Office Depot, they said they charge 25 cents per page. I have more than 300 papers to scan. I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on this. Are there any other place in LA they do the bulk scanning cheaper than this?

Thanks.

Scanning at Office Depot will cost you $75 then. It's not "hundreds of dollars".

Sometimes, people throw away ink printers/scanners because they are out of ink.
---
If all your pages are the same format, there are bulk scanners.
We have a scanner at work that accepts 100 or more pages, then you press the Start button, that's it. I've never used it, though.

[5pyg1a55]

Buy a scanner or fork out the $75. Jeeze

[ut new]

The individual scanning, and then editing/cropping, of each of thousands of photos is what takes too long.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by ut new

The individual scanning, and then editing/cropping, of each of thousands of photos is what takes too long.

No one is going to edit/crop your photos for cheap. That's time consuming and aside from that how would a stranger know how you wanted your photos cropped and edited. Just pay to get them scanned or buy a scanner, if you want to edit/crop one do it yourself sheesh

[IamaGoodCitizen]

It's papers, not photos. So nothing to crop.

Few years ago, I had my own scanner. I purchased one for around $180. When I do the bulk scanning, sometimes papers get stuck and it takes forever for me fix it. That's why I didn't go for my own scanner. The good ones that they have in Office Depot are like around $1000. Less chance of getting stuck and even if stuck, they know how to fix it quick.

I said I have more than 300 pages. So it is not just "$75".

[ut new]

And I have over 1000 photos from 2x2 to 8x10 inches that each need to be cropped and made to the same size.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by ut new

And I have over 1000 photos from 2x2 to 8x10 inches that each need to be cropped and made to the same size.

I don't think you understand the concept of digitizing photos, you scan them at as high a resolution as you might need to make a good quality print from, you don't 'make them all the same size' Then when you print the photo - or have someone print it you tell them the size print you want.