About three years ago, Mike Magi was working as a technical consultant and one of his client’s needed to go paperless and have all his documents scanned onto a computer.
One thing led to another and soon Magi started to convert all his friends and neighbors’ documents to computer images through scanning.
Six months ago, he and his wife Susan Magi opened Scans On Site, at 112 S. Federal Highway.
Scans On Site will scan everything from medical records and pictures to reports cards for children who are in school.
“We started with documents. The scanning of photos happened by accident,” Susan Magi said. “We brought our scanners to an event and people wanted us to convert their scrapbooks.”
Susan Magi said they also scan a lot of medical documents because of privacy regulations. Insurance forms are also popular because people tend to file claims as long as a decade after they take out a policy.
“Older photos are also popular before the digital age because people have boxes laying around, and want to protect their photos from storms and fires,” she said.
The average cost for a photo to be scanned is $.45 to $.55, but is 50 percent off on Wednesdays.
Drop off the items to scan between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to receive the special "While-You-Wait" Wednesday rate.
Scans On Site also scans photos by the inch. An inch of photos runs $25, of which Susan Magi said is 30 percent cheaper than anywhere.
As for documents, they run at $.05 a piece or if a whole box is getting scanned at about $.04 to $.07 a piece on average.
Molly Ayers has been looking for a place to scan her old, ripped report cards when she was a child growing up in Tennessee.
“My grandchildren don’t believe that I got good grades when I was in school,” she said. “I’ll have to show them the proof before the report cards disintegrate into nothing.”
Mike Magi said a lot of people don’t want to scan their documents because it can get costly if they have boxes and boxes.
“We can do a little at a time, say $100 here and there, so at least you are converting some of your documents,” he said.
Hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
For information, call 561-860-8013.
Mike Rothman can be reached at mkrothman@tribune.com.