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One alternative to a traditional scanner if you don't need to OCR the documents is to use a digital camera to photograph your documents instead of feeding them through a scanner. If you rig up a tripod and optionally add an inexpensive remote control, you can capture a lot of pages very quickly this way, and use free software like Picasa to organize it. I use this technique to archive bills and receipts from the living room couch instead of hovering over the scanner. As long as you use a high enough resolution (6MP or higher) you should be able to convert the documents into other formats later if you need to convert them to text.

For organizing lots of multipage documents, I love ScanSoft's PaperPort 8, but it's gotten expensive and reviews of the later versions have not been good.