Went paperless at my office in 2007. Bought Fujitsu scanner. They are excellent and still going. The only bad news was that they did not upgrade the older scanners to 64 bit. I still have two of the old ones working with 3rd party software.
I have three rules I tell people when going paperless.
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Don’t make paper. If you can get it electronically then do it. Making paper is really going backwards.
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Just start with today. Don’t worry so much about going back in time. A fools errand. The sooner you start, the sooner you have stuff electronically. In a couple of years you wont even think about the older stuff. You can cherry pick back in time if you want.
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You must have very good back up habits. I think Stephen and David talked about rule of 3 for backups. Anyway, backups are a must.
Last comment. There are cheap all in ones that can scan and there are really expensive scanners that support TWAIN. Fujitsu was the only one I found that is in the middle. It seems pricy but if you look at the whole picture, it is not.
Good Luck!