Scanning and Document Management Software Needed

[jkaz]

I've got about 10,000 documents a year that I need to manage.

Old way: Lot's of 3-ring binders loaded with paper and filemaker pro for database. Then Lots and Lots of photocopies! and wasted paper!

Hoping for: A way to scan these documents into the mac. Use filemaker just the same. But eliminate paper waste and photocopies by organizing and arranging the scanned documents so that I can creat pdf's and other documents through mixing and matching from various document locations so that i can make the laser printer do all the work.

any ideas?

thanks!

 

[Blue Velvet]

Couple of quick questions:

These documents you wish to scan. Do you need them OCR'd so they can be edited/searched later electronically or are they OK as 'images'?

How do currently create your PDFs?

Edit: After all, Acrobat Pro has many of the features that you seem to want and integrates with Office 2004.

 

[jkaz]

Thanks for the reply.

Docs as images should suffice(they take much space on hd?)

and I've been making pdf's under the print option of filemaker.

Thanks!