Scanning equipment is the equipment needed in an office so as to create more space in the office by reducing paper documents. This electronic equipment will scan paper documents into electronic form. Digital documents are normally stored in the hard disk of the computer. Digital documents occupy very little space. By scanning all non-electronic paper files into electronic form, the paper can later be burned because they are backed up in electronic form and a lot of space which they occupied will be freed up. It is very easy to secure digital documents and also to share them. Scanning devices are normally sold in online based stores.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Discovering The Benefits Of A Microfilm Scanning ServiceArti
Microfilm can last up to a hundred years. This makes microfilm one of the most preferred storage media. However, like all forms of media, film has its limitations. With the help of microfilm scanning service, data on microfilm can be converted into digital form.
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Document Scanning Company - What to Expect and How Much They May Charge
Document scanning is becoming an increasingly used service that people are outsourcing in bulk. This is for a number of reasons such as the wish that the office will become paperless, be more environmentally friendly or just to improve time-keeping, or efficiency.
These are all valid reasons, but if you were opting to use a document scanning company to scan your documents in bulk you may be wondering what to expect. As someone who has been in the business for a number of years now, it is one of the clients biggest curiosities to know about what the process is. The idea of this article is to answer that question to an extent.
Firstly it can depend on the type of document you are asking to be scanned and digitised. It could be a standard A4 document or it could be a huge blueprint for easy access and each has their own individual process. For example, a standard A4 sheet would be scanned using an industrial strength scanner which can take in hundreds of documents per minute, making sure they are the correct way up before scanning them at the quality of your request. This can be colour, black or white or greyscale. Colour kind of speaks for itself, as does black or white but grayscale is a higher quality version of black or white with more detail. You should get a sample of your documents produced before you get the lot converted as this will give you a good idea of what type of scanning you should opt for.
As this is going on the documents are being observed by a member of staff to ensure there are no problems, that no damage comes to the documents as they are going through the feed and also that the images are coming out right. The files are being saved whilst the process is going on and will be saved in order of your choice, which can be by name, reference number, title or something else. If it's possible you can also ask that the document be named after a particular field on the sheet of paper, which could be a reference number or date. This will ensure that the files are easier to find once they are on your computer system.
The documents are officially saved in a format of your choice which can range from PDF, JPEG, TIFF and other mainstream formats. These are recommended as they will be accessible by most computers around the world.
They will then be placed on a disk and sent back to you along with your physical documents if you choose to get them back, or you can alternatively have them disposed of usually by a shredding service offered by the same company. This adds space saving to the deal.
When it comes to charging you this is always a tricky subject for the company to scan documents, as it is often a very precise art to come up with a quote, one that usually requires finding out additional details about quantities and such. Very large orders of thousands of document may be as little as 1p which is a ridiculously good price. This is because of how quickly the company can scan the documents which of course passes the saving on to you. However additional services such as OCR (Optical Character Recognition, a way to make your documents text searchable) and indexing will cost extra, but will still be excellent value.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Universities and Colleges Improve Organisation Through Document Scanning
As I've mentioned in a few articles prior to this one, document scanning is known to help a wide variety of businesses and organisations in many different ways. In this post, we'll be talking about how it helps colleges and universities.
Universities, at least here in the UK, are currently in a state where they need to save as much money as they can while still try to move themselves forward in the academic world. Educational facilities need to be seen to be progressive but also economical and this is a hard task as one usually doesn't lead to the other. Being progressive usually costs money and will involve experimentation, which doesn't work when you're looking at it from a financial situation.
So universities and colleges across the world are always on the lookout for new and better ways to improve the way that they work and to lower their outgoings. That's where document scanning has come in for a lot of public sector organisations such as Universities.
Document scanning is no longer a small job that you do at home to digitise your photographs and bills, quite the opposite in fact. Scanning has become quite the tool for businesses as it is widely known, and proved to improve efficiency and lower costs.
Universities and colleges tend to use document scanning for digitising their student files, personal records, HR records and even their historical archived records. By going digital through document scanning, usually carries out by a professional document scanning company, these organisations see their organisation improve dramatically. Scanning and managing the documents digitally means that they can find files and records a lot more easily, make changes to them, print them and email them to other colleagues. In turn, this can save considerable time and on top of that space. If you no longer need to keep some of the particular documents that have been scanned and converted, they can be disposed of and recycled. This can make considerable room for educational organisations, space that is desperately needed at the best of times. The historical records that have been digitised can also be disposed of and kept on hard drive for staff and even students to look at whenever they like. In fact, universities and colleges have used document scanning to digitise many of their resources and put them online or on the university's own network so that staff and students can access them at any time.
Not only is this progressive and a very modern way of doing things, but things can be done considerably quicker as well as saving room and money. Because people can access files so much quicker, they are able to do more in their day than they normally would have done. This makes admin departments, libraries and other important areas of the university work like a well oiled machine and also makes these particular departments future proof. Once document scanning on a larger scale has been done once, it shouldn't need doing again as any other files that come in paper based, can be scanned and digitised by staff as they come in using almost any conventional scanners.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Converting Paper Documents into Electronic Formats
As our computer technology evolves, increasingly more tasks and files are managed electronically on a server. Companies often have to switch to an electronic format just to stay competitive. It would follow, then, that the need for paper is slowly being eliminated. From an environmental standpoint, this is good news. However, many industries still rely on paper for new files and records, and countless industries have warehouses full of archives in off-site storage. In fact, there are over four trillion paper documents stored in the US today, a number that increases about 22 percent annually. This statistic isn't just about space. Countless hours of manpower was used to file and organize the documents. It costs an estimated ,000 to fill a five-drawer filing cabinet with paper documents. More time and dollars are spent to go hunting for a document that may or may not be where it should. Additionally, the files are at risk of being lost, corrupted, or destroyed, all of which lead to lengthy and expensive measures to restore what is gone. Paper filing is therefore not only becoming obsolete; it is far more efficient to keep files stored electronically.
Many industries have started the arduous process of converting all of their old or archived documents into electronic data. Some businesses are pressured more than others to stay on top of the change. The ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database is currently working to digitize all of its microfiche reports. As an educational resource, it is important to make this change, though copyright holders may cause problems in this process. Court systems are actively making changes to be more electronically friendly; interestingly, lawyers have a unique interest in paper. When paper is gone, it stays gone. Electronic information still exists somewhere, even when deleted. The recovery of metadata is an especially delicate matter to lawyers. Obstacles unique to an industry may impede a complete overhaul; it is important for any business to assess the pros and cons of converting to a paperless system.
The advantages to electronic storage are many. Benefits of such a conversion include:
Accessible data - It is estimated that 500 hours per year are spent searching for documents in an office setting. Files stored in a database are never lost or misplaced, and they are easy to find when needed.
Document integrity - Electronic data is not susceptible to any form of wear or deterioration. Additionally, scanning documents into a PDF file keeps the electronic file looking exactly like the original
Security - Files can be set up with access control to safeguard sensitive documents. System administrators may also restrict the actions users can perform on files to prevent deleting or corrupting information.
Damage control - In addition to never being lost, digital files are safe from fire, smoke, and water damage that a business or storage site may suffer if disaster strikes
Updates - Updating electronic information is easy, and all users have immediate access to the changes. This eliminates the risk of human error when a document has to be recreated and updated at more than one facility
Productivity - Data that is accessible by more than one person at a time without leaving his or her desk reduces time wasted finding and sharing hard copies of documents.
Storage space - Not only does it cost money to store documents off site, retrieving the documents costs even more. Space is neither free nor guaranteed. Condensing files onto discs or the web frees up that need for real estate.
Finding reasons to convert paper to an electronic format is easy. Software and support specialists even make the conversion fairly simple. The process of creating digital images from paper documents entails feeding the document through a paper scanner that converts the document into either a tiff or PDF file format. Imaging software is needed to enable multiple users to access all the different document types at the desktop level. Some of the common conversion processes include microfilm to image, microfiche to image and paper scanning to PDF or other formats.
The major factor in question is total cost. Large businesses may implement software-based technologies like Enterprise Content Management or Electronic Document Management. Alternative systems more affordable to small and medium sized businesses include Network Office Appliances and an Application Service Provider. Aside from the investment in the technology, time is still needed to complete the job, and depending on the amount of paper to be converted, time (and manpower) can be a major factor.
The decision comes down to whether or not it's worth the time and money spent making the change. Sparing trees and space is worthwhile, but really the value of the documents in question is what is at stake. If the integrity and accessibility of the files are of utmost concern, then the conversion is likely worth the cost and effort. Businesses that research their options and wisely use their resources will experience a much smoother transition. Remember: once the transformation is complete, the hard part is over. The resulting security, ease, and convenience will last forever.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Now You Are Ready To Scan Microfilm To PDF
When you have a large job that requires you to scan microfilm to PDF, you will be glad to find that it is something that can be done quite easily. You are ready to move many of your office practices into the twenty first century and you want to begin with your data storage system. This will not be a challenge and as long as you are looking in the right places to get the job done, you should get through the chore without too many mishaps.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Scanning Software And Document Scanning
Scanning in pictures is a great way to be able to edit and share your favorite images. A lot of people will scan in old family pictures and post them on their social media profiles, create scrap books, and even photo edit them. In the old days, you had to pay a lot of money for someone to do these editing jobs and touch up old photographs. Now, with the right kind of scanning software, you can turn your old pictures into wonderful new and improved versions. You can even take regular pictures and turn them into old vintage photographs with the various effects that come with the right scanning software.
Some people are still not familiar with all the great things that one can do with a scanner and scanning software programs. They may not even know how to scan a picture or document. So let's outline briefly the steps involved, in case you don't already know. The main feature of most all-in-one printers and scanners is scanning. Scanning basically means that you're converting a picture or document into electronic data that your computer stores and translates into a similar image on the computer screen. It can also translate that image into a copy and print it out on photograph paper. In essence, you can use scanning to back up all important documents and images. Here is how you do it:
1. Turn on your scanner or printer, as well as your computer system. Make sure all connections between the printer and computer, or the scanner and computer are connected properly.
2. Lift the lid of your printer or scanner. Be sure to have a thorough examination of the scanning surface. You also want to check out the underside of the scanner lid for any finger prints or dust bunnies.
3. Next, you'll place your picture or document that you want to scan faced down on the glass. Make sure to align the paper or photo with the alignment markers. This will help you to square up the picture or document.
4. Close the lid of the scanner or printer very carefully. You want to make sure that your paper does not shift or move out of position.
5. Choose the scanning resolution. The higher your dots per inch (dpi), the more detailed and sharp your image will turn out.
6. Push on the button to scan. You may have to do it on the scanner itself or on the printer. On the other hand, there may be a software program that you have to use to turn it on to scan. Make sure you understand how to turn it on and where the scan button is.
7. Evaluate your preview of your scanned in document on the computer screen. Depending on your software and on the all-in-one printer, you may be prompted to the next page or the next set of actions on the computer display.
8. Next, you may be asked if you want to edit the image. Make the necessary changes you see fit. You may be able to downsize the image, make it bigger, resize it to other dimensions, and add sepia tones, lighting effects, and other cool things.
9. After you're done editing the image to your satisfaction, you hit the accept button and then scan it in. Next, you'll want to save it. Lastly, you'll return your original document or picture to a location that's safe for keeping.
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