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Application
areas: |
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Libraries. |
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Newspaper
clippings. |
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Medical
records. |
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Purchase
or Accounting documents. |
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Insurance
documents. |
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Leasing
documents. |
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Financial
documents for Banks. |
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Cancelled
cheques. |
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Input
process: |
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Image
capture using digital scanners or cameras. |
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Image
compression: |
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CCITT
GR4 or JBIG (B/W Images). |
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JPEG
(Gray or Color Images). |
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Resolution: |
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150/200/300
DPI. |
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Document
Size: |
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Anything
upto A0 size. |
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Document
Type: |
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Bound
books which cannot be unbound. |
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Bound
books which can be unbound. |
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Files
of loose or stapled documents. |
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Stapled
documents. |
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Loose
documents. |
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Image
Storage Format: |
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DataScan
ImageBase. |
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TIFF/JPEG/BMP
Image files. |
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Text
capture: |
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OCR/OMR/ICR
enabled. |
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Output
Media: |
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Compact
Disks, DVDs. |
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Magneto-Optical
Drives, DATs. |
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Speed
And Costing depends on: |
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Time
frame required for the job. |
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Determines
the type of equipment to be used. |
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Volume
of documents to be scanned. |
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Number
of indexing parameters. |
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Manual
data-entry time is dependent on this. |
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Number
of pages per document. |
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As
the indexing is done at the document level,
this defines the number of documents to i.e
indexed vis-à-vis number of pages. |
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Type
of document. |
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Document
preparation time. |
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Bound
material must be scanned one page at a time,
auto-feeder cannot be used. |
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Size
of pages. |
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Larger
documents require more time and take more
storage space. |
