I think scanning is worth it. There's a lot of cheap services out there that do it but it's also not too hard to find relatively cheap scanners that will process stacks of pages if you are willing to destroy the binding.
I scanned quite a few documents many years ago and it's been fun trying new tools every couple of years to see how good they are getting. I would say it's still not 100% there, but if you have them scanned you can basically just just keep trying and compare the results.
I think the only disappointment in recent years has been that storage has gotten more expensive instead of cheaper. I was waiting for SSDs to get cheap enough to justify moving all my documents to a fast flash array to process and search through them faster, but that doesn't seem like it will happen anytime soon.
I scanned quite a few documents many years ago and it's been fun trying new tools every couple of years to see how good they are getting. I would say it's still not 100% there, but if you have them scanned you can basically just just keep trying and compare the results.
I think the only disappointment in recent years has been that storage has gotten more expensive instead of cheaper. I was waiting for SSDs to get cheap enough to justify moving all my documents to a fast flash array to process and search through them faster, but that doesn't seem like it will happen anytime soon.