Scanning and digital photography both give you digitized images that you can manipulate in a graphics program, Brien. Also, remember that you can scan multiple chips at a timel... as many as will fit on the glass of your scanner. You can easily cut up the resulting image with your software to store the pics of the chips individually. If your intent is to do this for all the chips in your collection I would strongly urge you to get a scanner and Adobe Photoshop; the 'light' version or a downlevel version will work fine.

For keeping a history of your collection (insurance purposes, or to take with you to a show) you can scan about 30 chips per scan (I leave them in the 30 pocket pages I have my collection in) and save each page as an individual image. Put your images in 'folders' in Windows and you can easily find a chip in a few seconds. I've been doing this on my Compaq notebook for a year or so now and it works great!