Benefits of scanning documents
- Save money - Eliminate the costs associated with filing, archiving and long term storage of paper records. Reduce the amount of paper and ink used to print documents. Businesses spend $20 in labor to file or retrieve a document, $120 to find the document when it has been misfiled, and $250 to reproduce a lost document. Existing record and archive rooms can be converted into usable office space.
- Increase efficiency - The typical worker requires 12 minutes to process a single document, of which 9 minutes are locating, retrieving, and refilling the document. Once a scanned document has been accessed, printing and emailing is a click of a button.
- Greater accessibility - Multiple workers can view the same document simultaneously, thereby saving the need to photocopy.
- Increase productivity - Documents can be fully word searchable. OCR reduces the need for complex indexing or book marking of files.
- Recover valuable space - A single CD-ROM can hold between 18,000 to 20,000 scanned pages, the equivalent of two file cabinets worth of paper.
- Avert disasters - Avoid losing documents in disasters such as fires, flooding, etc by scanning documents and storing them on network servers
- Security and integrity - It’s estimated that between 3% and 7.5% of an organization’s documents are lost or misfiled. Document management software can provide additional security and user tracking to protect scanned documents. Scanned documents can be password protected and access restricted.
Your business won’t keep clients waiting for information, thereby appearing professional. Document scanning is perfect solution for engineering firms, law offices, real estate and mortgage firms, insurance brokers, banks, and human resources.