How To Select The Right Scanner For A Smooth-Running Document Imaging System

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Once you start converting paper documents into digital images, you'll be able to do all sorts of things with them. Store them, route them to almost anyone, almost anywhere. Turn your paperwork into an electronic workflow. Make your records management a drag-drop-click operation.

Because you're doing more work electronically, you'll probably experience cost savings and productivity increases. Increased efficiency can also give you competitive advantages when it comes to profitability and customer service.

But how do you get there? What about the image capture process itself? It's your on-ramp to document imaging. You want traffic to flow through it quickly and without incident.

Image quality is much more than pretty pictures. It's about making images as legible as possible for humans to read and software to extract data from. And doing so reliably, quickly, and with a total cost of operation that's affordable. As you weigh your scanner options, it's important to look at how the many combinations of features, speed, and cost available to you impact all aspects of quality. There's what shows up on the screen of your desktop computer. Then there's the process by which it gets there.

Image quality variables are generally centered on scanning and image processing. However, anything you can do to improve performance at any one of the steps noted here can help make your overall business process as efficient as possible. So it's wise to ensure that your choice of scanner takes all the steps into account.

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