That's a pretty narrow focus for determining ROI.

What about time spent accessing paper VS. online documents?

If you never have to retrieve the Records, that might be a fair cost
comparison. Most of my clients like to be able to retrieve their Records,
which is much more costly with paper than electronic. 

I managed an imaging project for the City of San Antonio that had an ROI of
4.5 months on a $40 K project.



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Subject: Re: Cost Recovery for Scanning

A side note:  fresh back from a PRISM International conference (trade 
association for commercial storage/destruction of records).  One 
panelist, long in the business, did some calculations and found that 
in comparing $  .25 per box per month storage to scanning the 
contents of that same box, it would take 9 years of storage to match 
the cost of scanning. Believe it--or not.


Mike
J. Michael Pemberton, Ph.D., CRM, FAI, President
Information Management Associates, Inc.
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