I may be missing something, but if you're currently just scanning the pages as images, take a look at the copier your company uses (assuming you have something larger than a tabletop model). If you're leasing from a vendor, there are a lot of decent digital models on the market that will handle your copying, work as a digital printer, fax documents, and scan pages.
A few things when talking with the vendor(s):
1. What is necessary to connect the device to your network? Things are much better now than before, but I still remember having fits with one brand of copiers (actually the fiery software they used) because of security settings used on our network wouldn't allow the device to connect.
2. In what format will it scan the images? You never, never, never want to use a copier/scanner that uses a proprietary format. That just locks you into that company's products and if they ever stop supporting the format, you're almost certainly SOL.
3. Where will the images be saved? How easily can you access them from your desktop after scanning? If special software is needed to view the images, only pursue it if the software if freely and perpetually available (IOW, if you ever stop leasing from the vendor, you can still access your old images).
4. Always test the exact model you're considering, preferably on-site. Most good vendors will bring out a copier for a test, some for a few days, some for longer. This allows you to test it in your own real-world environment, as opposed to the vendor's. If on-site isn't an option, at the very least test several types of documents at the vendor's showroom.
As far as I know (it's been a while since I handled copiers for a company) you won't have OCR capability with these devices - they scan as an image which (IIRC) cannot be modified. But since the features on these machines are constantly changing, it's probably worth your time to at least speak with a couple vendors about it. Worst case, you just waste a bit of time finding out they don't have what you need.
