Re:Why go "Paperless"? (Score 1)

It is a useful question and I've been wondering this myself over the last couple of weeks. My mother is a 'hoarder' and has rooms full of paperwork, books, magazines, and other mostly worthless rubbish that nobody can help her throw out. In the past couple of years I've switched her to Internet banking and billing, email and digital photography. I was just thinking last weekend that I could probably help her get rid of more rubbish if I could show her *convincingly* that there was a way to store documents into her computer quickly, index and search them and not lose anything. The only question now, though, is the ideal software for OCR'ing, tagging, browsing and searching through an immense pile of mixed documents that might include anything from a magazine clipping to a treasured family photo jumbled in together with a dozen spoons and a leaky pen. If I can find a good method then in a weekend I could clear a whole room full of stuff from her home. But if I can't convince her that nothing will be lost or misplaced then she won't even let me try.