Count Your Documents: Filing Cabinets

Estimating how many documents you have is the first step in starting to convert your paper documents. However, with paper hiding in all sorts of forms, it can be difficult to know how much paper is in each store. Here is the next of several posts to help you estimate the paper volume in your office.

Filing Cabinets: The Office Storage Cliché

Filing cabinets have been the standard for paper storage for years. Use this guide to estimate how many documents are actually stacked in those drawers.

lateral-file-cabinetvertical-file-cabinet

30″W  x  18″D  x  13″H    lateral drawer would contain 5,500 – 6,000 pages.

18″w  x  26″D  x  13″H    vertical drawer would contain 3,000 – 4,000 pages.

*This is the page count for a full drawer.

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