Cost analysis: store paper versus scan electronically

The initial cost to have documents scanned and stored digitally is high, and some claim that the same paper could be stored for 40 years at a records management company.  We would disagree with some of the author’s inflated cost figures for paper storage, but his points about determining which records are good candidates for scanning are spot on.  http://www.insidecounsel.com/2011/10/17/saving-paper-records-may-be-more-expensive-than-yo