There are tens of thousands of pages involved, probably hundreds of thousands.
Many are in book format.
Are you gonna sit there and flip pages, take a scan, flip the page, take a scan, etc? Are you gonna do it for the few years it'd take to do them all?
They have special scanners that flip pages and they'll bring them on-site to digitize them. That's probably what I'll end up doing, though it's going to cost a fortune. I want to even digitize the owner manuals when I am unable to find those manuals in digital format already.
Then, every bit of documentation also needs to be scanned and cataloged. From the original build sheet to the receipts the owners kept along the way.
In book format it would take forever. If they were individual sheets the machine I have could do that in no time, both sides. I do not have a copier that turns the pages in a book. It could copy stacks of paper digitally fast as hell though
They make neat machines that actually use a page turner and a digital camera. They're pretty neat. You can hire companies that will come do it on premises. I'd still expect it to take many months.
Though, once it's done it should be much easier to keep up. You can also get quite a few manuals online in digital format.
What's the year and model of your car again?
99 Van Den Plas
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