Jenny Watson wrote:
>

>
> For months now I've been trying to gain some kind of
> objective perspective on the document scanning/ management
> market.  My enquiry is on behalf of a customer with a
> backlog of thousands of documents to start with; thereafter
> it will probably settle down to a few hundred a day.  The
> documents will be of varying qualities and possibly different sizes.
> They don't want OCR yet (though perhaps I should leave the
> door open for it.)  Automatic document feeding is a must, as
> is a good image storage/retrieval system.  I imagine those
> requirements will put them somewhere near the middle/top end
> of the range - ie. not Visioneer Paperport, as excellent as
> that product may be.

> Jenny
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Jenny: There is a lot of info that you left out; how do you want to
store the page?  CDs, harddrive, Raid or other? How do want to retrieve
the pages?  I can't make a specific recommendateion without it. but one
company that I/m aware of that may be able to help you is: Compulink
which makes a product called LaserFiche. Many municipalities use it to
store amd retrieve documemts.  Compulink has a website but I can't
remember it.
Suggestion: Whoever you choose, be sure to have a trial period at ;east
60 days to be sure this is what you want. You are right, it is not
cheap! Good luck in your search!

Edwin Dockus
Computer Consultant

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