Hi, Rick and Sheila, Thanks for your emails. Rick, I was going to create pdf files upfront, but my Lexmark X2600 would screw up when I tried to create a multi-page pdf file after scanning about 50 sheets as pdfs. It would say I had no rights to save to disk or say there was not enough memory, so after wasting several hours the first couple of days scanning and re-scanning and wondering what I had done wrong when the program balked, I thought to heck with it and created jpgs instead as there are programs which will create a pdf file from jpgs. Even then the Lexmark also seems to have some kind of buffer/memory limit which meant that every 50 scans or so, even with scans as jpgs, it would stop. I would then close the program and start over. Once I got used to its quirks, no problems from then on. [Ah, and as jpgs, I could use Irfanview to go in and black out that terribly embarrassing "geneology" at the top of some sheets. Hah.] Sheila, well, not going to jump ship yet. Maybe when some super duper new program hits the market,makes the news and catches my attention. Ugh, now am I really going to throw out the paper??? Yi yi yi. Maybe I can just box the papers up and let my sister throw the box out when I die. Sam On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Rick Van Dusen via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > IMO, documents fit into one of three categories: > > > If it were me, I'd definitely make images (scan) of all your > aging/failing paper items, then free myself from the paper. > > One note, though: Why go through the intermediate step of scanning to > jpg? I think most scanner software will allow you to make a pdf > directly. My Epson software allows a "multi-page" pdf scan process, > where I just keep feeding the pages until I get done, then make one pdf > file. (I can pause along the way to verify if I've scanned the same page > twice, etc.) > > Best wishes on getting rid of extraneous paper! > > > Rick Van Dusen > > >