Heather:

There are three widely used production scanning packages:  Kofax Ascent,
Captiva InputAccel and Datacap TaskMaster.  My guess is Kofax is the most
popular, although the choice should depend on your capture needs, such as
forms recognition, OCR/ICR, validation, etc.  I strongly encourage you to
buy some image enhancement features, either hardware or software to ensure
quality images.

How long do you have to process those 10 K documents (and how many sheets,
single or double sided, color, any photos?)? That will all be a factor in
selecting a scanner.  How many folks will you have to prepare documents for
scanning and then review the images and index them?  This is likely to slow
you down more than the scanner.

The question I have is where you are going to put the images once you get
them?

Feel free to contact me directly with additional questions.

Bernard Chester, CDIA+, ICP
Principal Consultant
IMERGE Consulting
7683 SE 27 Street, #316
Mercer Island, WA  98040
office: 206-230-9253 / cell: 206-979-7389
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-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Heather Carr
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:47 PM
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Subject: The Best of Imaging

Good Afternoon!

I am curious as to what is the most commonly used document imaging program?
Any suggestions that are widely used and can handle very large quantity
(3,000-10,000 a month).   Any suggestions on scanners that are good for this
type of quantity?  I'm going to research this on my own, I just need a
little advise to point me in the right direction.

Need a little background info?

My department is basically a payroll and benefit administration department
(we use PeopleSoft) for all four campuses of CU.  Soo.... We would be
scanning 20,000 - 30,000 files initially.  And then there is, obviously, a
continuous new hire and termination cycle, that I can't really estimate the
amount.  However, in our busiest months which are beginning of the new
academic year and end of year, we receive approximately 6,000-10,000 new
documents (very rough estimates), with the majority of them needing a new
file.

In advance, thanks for all of your help!  I appreciate it greatly!  ; - )

Heather  M Carr
University of Colorado
Payroll & Benefit Services
Records Management

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