1. A method of processing a project having a plurality of source documents into scanned images of the source documents, comprising: scanning, with at least one scanner device, at least two source documents of the project to produce a digital scanned image for each of the at least two source documents; analyzing, with at least one processor, each of the scanned images to measure at least one characteristic of each of the at least two source documents; determining, with the at least one processor, a range of characteristics based on the measured characteristics, wherein the range of characteristics is bound by a highest measured characteristic and a lowest measured characteristic, and encompasses the measured characteristic for each of the at least two source documents; storing, on at least one storage medium, source document quality metrics for the project, the source document quality metrics comprising the range of characteristics; scanning, with the at least one scanner device, each of the plurality of source documents in the project a second time to create a second set of electronic image files representative of all physical documents from the project; and storing, on the at least one storage medium, the one or more electronic image files and a relationship of the one or more electronic files to the source document quality metrics, wherein the at least one characteristic comprises a selection from a group consisting of: color range; grayscale range; luminosity; contrast and noisiness.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: during or after the second scanning step, determining scanned image quality metrics; using the scanned image quality metrics to determine a level of effort required to perform optical character recognition of the scanned images.