Does anyone know of a business that can scan to .pdf?

[LoraJ]

Every once in a while someone needs a copy of our master deed for the condo association. I would love to have it as a .pdf file so I could just email it to them or have it on hand to easily copy. My personal copy is getting a bit worn. I have the technology to do this at home, but with 200 pages, it would be a bit time consuming. I was looking at staples.com and FedEx office, but I do not see this service listed. Does anyone know of any other places that do this and around how much it would cost? I am just outside of NYC if that helps.

 

[FireDancer]

Most enterprise copiers now will do scanning to PDF so I imagine that at least one of the machines at a place like Kinko's or Office Max should be able to do it. If you had to do it at home you could do it a couple of pages at at time and then assemble the PDFs into one file at a later time.

 

[Green Tea]

My home printer/scanner does this.

 

[golfgal]

You could also look up any virtual office assistants in your area. Chances are you could pay them to do this job-probably for a lot less then Office Max or Kinko's.

 

[TinkerbEllnor]

I use eFax for getting stuff from work. (www.efax.com)

You set up an account, they give you a fax number that is just for you. Anything that is faxed to that number will be converted to a pdf and sent to your email box. You can then fax your document to yourself to convert it to pdf.

If I remember correctly, I think 200 pages is the max pages per month for a free account, so you may need to break it up into a part 1 and part 2, otherwise it is about $20 month for the premium service and unlimited pages.

 

[Gabes_mommy]

Office Max does it. I had my transcripts scanned to PDFs last year. It was probably about 8 pages total and it cost about $1.

 

[GingerJay]

I absolutely second the efax recommendation. We use that at my office, too.

 

[golfgal]

I use eFax for getting stuff from work. (www.efax.com)

You set up an account, they give you a fax number that is just for you. Anything that is faxed to that number will be converted to a pdf and sent to your email box. You can then fax your document to yourself to convert it to pdf.

If I remember correctly, I think 200 pages is the max pages per month for a free account, so you may need to break it up into a part 1 and part 2, otherwise it is about $20 month for the premium service and unlimited pages.

So if you do this fax part of the document on Dec 31st and the rest on January 1st and you are good to go . If you don't have plans for New Year's Eve, here you go

 

[LoraJ]

Thanks for the suggestions. I will look into a virtual assistant. E-fax would not work for me because my fax is my scanner so I would just be scanning in 200 pages which is what I am trying to avoid.

I called Staples and they charge 25cents a page. Although I am not confident the person on the phone was understanding what I needed done.

Thanks again!

 

[Good Ol Gal]

do you have this as a file on your computer? or is it only printed out?