I would like to have an outside company scan all of my 2001 hard copy
documents to CD(s).  I have got about 100,000 letter sized clean
(unclipped and no staples) black and white text documents that need to
be accessed at a later date.  My question...Who provides this service
in Lower Fairfield County CT or Westchester County NY...what do they
charge
(assuming pdf files)...how long should it take...would it be done in
my office or theirs?

Hello Imjustnextdoor,

There seems to be a wide range of options for document scanning and
conversion to CD. Some factors that greatly affect the cost and time
include:

 - basic image capture of black and white (and not grayscale or color)
 - resolution of the basic image capture (200 x 200 and up)
 - add optical character recognition (to allow indexing and searching)
 - add editing of OCR results (to correct scan and OCR mistakes)
 - add formatting of edited material
 - where the work is to be performed

Each of these basic activities may be priced differently by a vendor.
There may be additional costs to make duplicate media, shredding the
originals, and other services. A Canadian site that has a pretty
extensive price list is at
  http://discountdocumentscanning.com/priceUS.htm
Check the example where a relatively small sample is processed and
then a 1000 page run was performed at
  http://discountdocumentscanning.com/PrUSEx.htm

This vendor is not in the area you describe (but is across the border
in Dundas - near Toronto), but it along with several others describe
both on site scanning as well as shipping to the vendor. Examples
include:

  Glenshaw Publishing (Pennsylvania)
  http://www.glenshawpc.com/index.html

  Del Mar Data (California)
  http://delmardata.com/

Or vendors that claim to cover New York and Connecticut include
  Photomicrographics
  http://www.photomicrographics.com/index1.htm
  http://www.photomicrographics.com/scanning.htm

  Advanced Imaging Solutions
  http://www.aislegal.com/imageserv.html

Neither of these vendors provided any pricing information. Basically
they want you to call them first. It looks like most of the vendors do
this service as part of either
 - disaster recover planning
 - legal document retention

Searches on those phrases may provide additional vendors as well.

If these do not meet your needs - please use the clarification request
to explain your needs more fully so I can address them.

  --Maniac

Thank you for your input and research - very useful.