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How much paper are you sitting on?
Answer a few quick questions about how your documents are stored and get a working estimate of your total volume. The number updates as you go.
1What kind of paper do you have?
Standard is 11×17 or smaller. Large format is anything bigger, like plans and blueprints.
A volume range to open the conversation, never a price.
AHow the estimate is calculated▾
We count an inch of stored paper as 150 pages. Records-management guides put the real range at 150 to 200 sheets per inch. We use the low end on purpose. It absorbs the space folders take up and keeps the estimate a little high, which is the right place to start.
Lateral drawer width, vertical drawer depth, box length, or shelf length gives us the "filing inches." We add those up for each group, then reduce the total by that group's average fullness.
We count large format as individual pages, not inches. Rolls get dense, and a drawer can hold anywhere from dozens to thousands. You tell us how many containers you have and the average pages in each.
Scanning is billed by image, not by page. A two-sided page is two images. We convert pages to images using a double-sided assumption you can change (the default is 50%). Large-format plans are single-sided and counted once. Everything shows as a ±10% range because no one knows the true sheet count until the paper is scanned.
We checked these numbers against records-management references, including Record Nations, the U.S. National Archives box spec, and office furniture sizing guides. Lateral cabinets come in 30, 36, and 42 inch widths. Vertical capacity depends on drawer depth, so we ask for usable depth (23, 26, or 28 inches, with 26 as the default) instead of width. Boxes pack denser than folders in a drawer, so we set the standard banker box at about 2,500 sheets and the legal or large box at about 4,500.
BScope▾
In scope
- Volume only: a page count for standard and large format paper.
- Three storage types: cabinets, boxes, open shelves, in any combination.
- Large format as its own branch, including roll storage.
- Average fullness per storage group, with an option to set it separately when groups differ.
- Average pages per folder: we note it, but keep it out of the total.
- Add / remove items live with a running total to play with.
- Shareable summary of every input, with a copy button, so a specialist can see where the estimate came from.