...closer to $2000.
Caveats: this assumes you want to produce an image file, no OCR, black and white; otherwise, you're on your own.
I worked for a company that scanned vehicle loan documents for customer service call centers. They used a Kodak 2500 (not sure they make it any more) to scan up to 50 ppm, double-sided. We normally used about 100 dpi for images, which were perfectly legible but kept the image sizes down (about 120kb for a single sided 8.5 x 28 inch sheet). This data was imported into a workstation (old Win98 box with a SCSI card) running a software package called Paperflow. The images could then be indexed by hand and exported to a file server, and index information moved to a database (we were using something that worked with SQL, but I can't remember what).
This is only worth the effort and cost if it becomes an ongoing project -- all future notes also get scanned.
Option 2: Outsource, but it might not be necessary to go to India. We bought all of our equipment from a company called Mackin Imaging (www.mackinimaging.com), and they do stuff like this for schools, banks, insurance companies, etc. all the time. I have no idea what they'd charge for a one-off project, but it will be done the way you want, indexed, no dropped pages, etc.
Hope this helps.
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...closer to $2000. Caveats: this assumes you want to produce an image file, no OCR, black and white; otherwise, you're on your own. I worked for a company that scanned vehicle loan documents for customer service call centers. They used a Kodak 2500 (not sure they make it any more) to scan up to 50 ppm, double-sided. We normally used about 100 dpi for images, which were perfectly legible but kept the image sizes down (about 120kb for a single sided 8.5 x 28 inch sheet). This data was imported into a workstation (old Win98 box with a SCSI card) running a software package called Paperflow. The images could then be indexed by hand and exported to a file server, and index information moved to a database (we were using something that worked with SQL, but I can't remember what). This is only worth the effort and cost if it becomes an ongoing project -- all future notes also get scanned. Option 2: Outsource, but it might not be necessary to go to India. We bought all of our equipment from a company called Mackin Imaging (www.mackinimaging.com), and they do stuff like this for schools, banks, insurance companies, etc. all the time. I have no idea what they'd charge for a one-off project, but it will be done the way you want, indexed, no dropped pages, etc. Hope this helps.