[mw6621]

A document scanner.

I had many years of old paper tax returns, and I wanted them in PDF format. Paid $400 for an Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1500 and absolutely love it. Put a stack of documents in the top, hit "scan", and a PDF appears on my computer. Zero hassle.

Anything that I get in paper form gets immediately scanned, backed up, and shredded.

[moepstar]

I actually plan on getting a paper scanner too (aside from the slow, crappy multifunction printer thingamajig i got), however, the pricetag has scared me away until now - do you have any other recommendations for maybe cheaper options?

That being said, scanning stuff is only part of my plan - i also plan on putting things into Mayan EDMS or paperless, OCR'd up and searchable...

https://www.mayan-edms.com / https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless

[tomjen3]

I just brought a standard scanner from a big box store.

It is manual per page, but that isn't too bad unless you need to scan 400 pages at once and it can put paper together for a multipage pdf if so desired. I also scanned some of my old handwritten diaries but because those where in notebooks it was a pain to scan the pages and required me to hold both the notebook and the scanner and they still came out wobbly.