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Scanning speed The most common question that gets asked during the sales process for a scanner is, "How fast is it?" Almost everyone thinks that the higher the speed of the scanner, the higher the output. The fact is, this is not always the case. Beyond a certain level, the scanner will be idle due to the inability to feed documents at that speed. This is especially true when scanning mixed documents, where it becomes impossible to use the scanner to full speed. The scanning speed is measured either in ppm (pages per minute) for simplex scanners or ipm (images per minute) for duplex scanners. Today, there are scanners ranging from 20 ppm to 200 ppm. Unless the purchaser is an internal or external service bureau (or a similar operation of scanning very high volumes of the same document type), the lower speed ranges are likely sufficient for many.
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Capture and Imaging | Document Management | Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Remember when placing the blue recycling bin next to the copier and encouraging employees to duplex their print jobs made you feel like you were doing your part to help the environment? The sustainability expectations set for corporations today have never been higher, and many are realizing that the benefits of going green with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) extend beyond being viewed as a good corporate citizen to significant cost savings and increased worker productivity.
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Making an ECM implementation successful requires planning and attention to detail. The best way to create the right solution is to identify organizational goals and priorities. Learn how to manage a successful implementation in our free guide.
Capture and Imaging | Document Management
As leading economic indicators continue to signal a global economic slowdown, companies are looking for practical steps to take – such as lowering costs and streamlining operations – in order to weather the storm and achieve a competitive edge in the eventual recovery. At the same time, recent industry research shows that businesses also want to be more environmentally responsible. There are several document management practices that can help companies reach both their environmental and cost-reduction goals. From the sustainability perspective, these practices can significantly reduce the use of paper, thereby saving trees, gas in shipping the paper, physical space to store it, and halting the eventual destruction of many files that end up in a landfill. According to the Environmental Paper Network, “If, for example, the United States cut its office paper use by roughly 10 percent, or 540,000 tons, greenhouse gases would fall by 1.6 million tons. This is the equivalent of taking 280,000 cars off the road for a year.”
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Capture and Imaging | Document Management
Not every document management company has the expertise and flexibility to meet your firm's needs. Follow these guidelines to choose a document scanning and document management service provider that will help your company operate more efficiently, improve your bottom line and strengthen your competitive position; now and as you plan for growth in the future.
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Enterprise Imaging applications can be challenging to run efficiently. Unlike other data, document images are usually large, which means they take up a lot of memory, use a lot of disk storage, and take a long time to process or send over a network. However, advanced image processing techniques can easily get you an order of magnitude improvement in size, speed, or bandwidth. If you start using a few of these techniques, you’ll see how easily you can reduce your hardware budget (which, incidentally, will reduce power consumption, maintenance, downtime, etc.)
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