The trend over the past few years has been a move away from large centralized departmental scanners to more compact decentralized units. Scanner manufacturers have responded with a variety of low cost, high feature scanners that provide more punch than their much more costly predecessors had. Scanner leaders such as Canon, Fujitsu and Kodak continue to introduce scanners in the desktop and workgroup segments that make scanning a breeze from the desktop.
Copier manufacturers have been offering Multi-Function Devices for years. These units are now becoming mainstream and organizations are using them for many of their ad hoc scanning needs. Although these units lack the image quality of the document scanners on the market, they provide an ease of scanning in a single unit.
Finally, scanner manufacturers introduced network scanners a couple of years ago. These units are a blend of the desktop scanners and MFDs. Offering a centralized scanner that has a simplified user interface, they include some of the image enhancement characteristics of document scanners and are small enough to fit on any desktop.
So, with all of these choices how do you control the quality, indexing and storage of the images? Consider software from a manufacturer, such as Notable Solutions Inc. NSi software integrates with your MFP, network scanner and desktop scanner with a single easy to use interface. It also integrates with most ECM solutions providing a seamless integration between all of your capture pieces.
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