From the file cabinet to fully searchable
Been around for decades? Your knowledge is probably on paper. Our bulk scanning add-on digitizes it — priced by volume, quoted up front.
Some of the best shops and firms have been around so long that their real knowledge isn't in any app — it's in local folders, on an old server, or printed and stuffed into file cabinets in the back office. That legacy is genuinely valuable: decades of jobs, prices, drawings and decisions. It's also nearly impossible to search — and one flood, fire or office move away from being gone for good.
What our bulk scanning service is
ManuFind offers bulk scanning as an add-on service for exactly this situation: hand us the boxes, binders and drives, and we scan and digitize the contents for you. Every page is read by optical character recognition (OCR) on the way in — software that turns the picture of a page into real text — so even decades-old drawings and typed reports land in your ManuFind library as fully searchable documents, not just pictures of paper.
How it works, start to finish
- Tell us what you have — roughly how many boxes, binders or cabinets. You don't need an exact count.
- We collect and scan — pickup, careful handling, scanning and quality checks are all on us.
- Watch it land in ManuFind — each batch is read and tagged automatically as it's digitized, so the archive becomes searchable as we go, not months later. You organize it into projects and folders however suits your business.
- Get your originals back — returned to you, or certified destruction if you prefer.
What it costs
One thing to know up front: bulk scanning is not included in ManuFind plans. It's a separate, additional service, and the price depends on how much there is to scan — a few binders is a small job; a back room full of cabinets is a bigger one. Tell us roughly what you have and we'll give you a clear quote before anything leaves your building. No surprises on the invoice.
From paper to a knowledge engine
Once it's in ManuFind, that legacy knowledge starts working for you: search it, ask questions about it, and connect it to the work you do today. That's when the interesting questions start: "have we ever done a job like this one?" "what did we charge in 2012, and what would that be at today's rates?" "which of these old contracts are still in force?" Decades of paper stop being a storage problem and start acting like an advisor — safely stored for the long term in a place that doesn't flood, fade or get thrown out.
Turn the file cabinet into a searchable memory. Tell us what you have and get a quote.