Thanks for your thoughts. I remember being told at the last User Conference I attended that the imported items are all saved in .pdf format, and can be directly accessed on a per-patient basis by going into the AC directory and finding the patient's folder (I think they said they are sorted by the patient's AC record number), and there can be directly copied or printed like files in any Windows directory; BUT the office encounters, etc. would all have to be hand printed one-at-a-time, then scanned, etc., as you wound up having to do. (Plus, your generated .pdfs proved unreadable, which is a worry).
It seems to me, with all of us facing retirement at some point, that AC would find it wise to write a utility that would do this at a push of a button for either an individual record, or as a batch command, which could be based on some selectable criteria like 'active records with visit within last 3 yrs' or something.
Perhaps they'll consider it. I appreciate your response.