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Whether you’re looking for ways to reduce costs on your next outsourced document scanning project, or control costs on your ongoing in-house document scanning processes, you need to take a broad look at what “cost” really means.
Broadly speaking, every document scanning project includes three stages:
- Preparation: select documents to be scanned, remove staples and paper clips, sort the documents and arrange the papers into batches. This is labor-intensive work. According to estimates from Document Management magazine, the preparation stage accounts for 37% of the costs of a typical document scanning project.
Posted by Ben - Posted in: Methods and Procedures - Tagged: digital conversion, document imaging, document imaging and scanning, document scanning, document scanning and conversion
Document scanning is not just for managing documents at the “end of their life cycle” as in records retention, regulatory compliance and archiving. It can also be useful for improving the business’s ongoing operations, creating efficiencies, saving time and improving productivity in a number of areas that affect the daily work of the organization.
Document scanning can help improve…
- Response time: With digitally scanned documentation, it’s easier to find relevant information to answer questions from customers or respond to inquiries from auditors and regulatory compliance officials. If you have a digital database of well-organized digital documents that can be searched by keyword (using Optical Character Recognition), you never have to worry about sending the wrong version of a contract, sending an archived invoice to the wrong customer, or failing to find a time-sensitive record.
Posted by Ben - Posted in: The Business Case for Document Imaging - Tagged: digital conversion, digital document imaging, document imaging, document imaging and scanning, document scanning, document scanning and conversion
Whether your company uses in-house staff, temporary workers, or outsourced scanning services, efficiency in document scanning is becoming more important than ever before. Companies are looking for new efficiencies in document scanning to save money, improve workflows, capture business-critical information, and simplify their daily operations by reducing the amount of paper involved in their work processes.
Here are a few key components to consider when evaluating the efficiency of your document scanning operation:
Posted by Ben - Posted in: Methods and Procedures - Tagged: digital conversion, document imaging, document imaging and scanning, document scanning, document scanning and conversion, efficient document scanning
Many companies are using document imaging to save time and money in managing paper documents, convert their business operations to “paperless” work processes, and convert their paper documents and archives to digital format.
As the market for document imaging services continues to grow, companies are seeking a higher level of sophistication from their document scanning vendors.
Several key trends are emerging, as document imaging takes on a larger role in process improvement, data extraction, and information security.
Posted by Ben - Posted in: Document Imaging Ideas and Trends - Tagged: digital conversion, digital document imaging, document imaging and scanning, document scanning, document scanning and conversion, document scanning services, Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR), Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Digital scanning and document conversion are growing trends in business, as companies look to “go paperless,” reduce the amount of time and money they spend handling paper documents, streamline their work processes by using more electronic files, or convert paper archives to digital format.
If your company is thinking about doing scanning, you need to give some thought to what kind of scanner to buy. Choosing the right scanner can make a big difference – you can potentially save hundreds or thousands of dollars and avoid a significant amount of frustration.
Posted by Ben - Posted in: Document Imaging Ideas and Trends - Tagged: document imaging and scanning, document scanning, document scanning services
Another part of preparing for a document conversion project is for the client to have a sense of whether or not they need to include barcodes as part of the scanning process. Many clients think that barcodes are a “must have” to ensure an efficient document conversion. But the reality is that you don’t always need barcodes.
It’s true that barcodes can be used when scanning documents in order to create an accurate index to find the scanned images’ accompanying data. At microMEDIA, we almost always use barcodes as part of our scanning process for clients. However, while barcodes can be useful, they are not an absolute requirement.
Posted by Ben - Posted in: Methods and Procedures - Tagged: barcodes, document scanning, document scanning and conversion, document scanning service
Identity theft, data breaches, and information security failures have become part of the new vocabulary of modern business. When a company fails to preserve confidential customer information, or allows its competitive secrets to become compromised, that company’s reputation and profitability are greatly damaged. While computer hackers, massive scale data theft, and other “high-tech” types of data breaches tend to get big publicity, one of the leading culprits in data breaches is much older and simpler: paper.
Posted by Ben - Posted in: The Business Case for Document Imaging - Tagged: document management and archiving, document scanning, document scanning and conversion
How many of you have old family photos and artifacts that date back over 100 years? How many have invaluable documents, journals, family crests, even recipes handwritten by your great grandmother? Almost all of us have inherited artifacts, mementos and photographs of our family. It’s a great way to pass along and share family heritage and traditions. But often times these photos and documents end up damaged or altered by sun, water or simple wear over time or even lost or misplace.
What if there was a better way to save these memories for future generations?
Posted by JoeWise - Posted in: History and Archiving - Tagged: bangor public library, digital conversion, document imaging, document imaging and scanning, document management and archiving, document scanning, document scanning and conversion, scanning family photos
In December, Shi’ite fighters in Iraq used $26 store-bought software to hack into U.S. drone aircraft and intercept live video feeds of war zones. This dangerous security breach could potentially allow the militants to steal sensitive information regarding U.S. operations.
Of course, not all organizations are challenged with protecting their data from insurgents. But the military security breach does bring up a serious question for organizations in all industries: Is your data safe?
For industries ranging from healthcare to banking, a sizable amount of documents scanned and filed involves sensitive personal data. Organizations must take all possible security precautions to protect digital information involving corporate, medical and financial data.
Posted by JoeWise - Posted in: The Business Case for Document Imaging - Tagged: document scanning, protect data
September 12th 
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