[quote=FlyerInHi]BG, you need the acrobat software and a feeding scanner (about $300 -$400). I scan all my documents and acrobat software makes very small files.
It’s cheaper than paying for a phone line month after month and supplies for your fax machine.

Shall we mention all the clutter paper creates? I keep only keep a few original documents.[/quote]I have used Nuance pdf Converter Professional for the last decade or so. It converts pdf to Word and vice versa and also scans forms making the fields type-able and compresses pdf documents and a few other things. I’m happy with it.

I only pay $11-$12 month for my landline phone acct because I have agreed to pay .18 minute for “long distance.” Meaning area codes 858 and 760 in SD County are “long distance” from my (619) fax number as are all the other area codes in the state and country. It is a bare-bones account with my fax ringer turned off so I don’t care how many spammers try to call it, day or night. They get a high-pitched beep indicating it is a fax line so they all hang up after two rings. I can hear the machine when a fax is coming in. I have a separate fax machine/flatbed scanner with a sheet feeder (w/o a phone receiver) that I switch the phone line to when I need to send large documents.

This is by far the cheapest method for me and my “clients,” (the firms/agencies I work with).

Yes, brian, I have several lateral files collectively likely weighing nearly 1000 lbs. Plus a few dozen banker’s boxes stored. :=0 I’m chipping away at this “project” little by little. One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2016 was to devote 2-4 hours per week to shredding as time permits.

Little by little, I am making progress.

And you’re right, spd. I don’t store anything in the “cloud.” My business files are on separate, password-protected e-Sata and SCSI hard drives (mirrors of each other) which are locked away unless I am using one of them. Absolutely no confidential files in my “charge” are ever available to anyone but me.