The cost of filling and maintaining a filing cabinet is staggering. There are costs associated with equipment, space, and the salaries it takes to maintain the filing cabinet. A four drawer filing cabinet holds 15,000 to 20,000 pieces of paper. It costs $5,000 to fill the cabinet and $500 a year to maintain it. One filing cabinet of information can be held on a single optical platter, about twice the size of a CD case you have in your music collection.

For legal reasons, some documents may need to be stored for a period of years. LDocX can provide you with options for off-site storage of paper documents as part of an imaging contract.