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Document Scanning Software and Services
Forms Processing and Data Capture Study Announced
The Association for Work Process Improvement (TAWPI) and Harvey Spencer Associates have published a second Forms Processing and Data Capture Study for the benefit of TAWPI’s membership, fortune 1000 corporations, and solutions providers.
The purpose of this study was to gather information to help document processing, scanning and data capture professionals improve their work process, service and operational efficiency as well as provide leading scanning and other software and technology vendors information on purchasing patterns, adaptation and behaviors of industry end users.
Survey evidence strongly suggests that adoption rates have not kept pace with advances in scanning technology. While there appears to be a much better understanding of the potential of scanning and capture tools, and technology software, the market has not yet fully embraced these tools or services for process improvement.
We anticipate that adoption rates will increase to leverage these networks more effectively. Integration with office and messaging document applications and industry-specific scanning software systems, will become commonplace. The recent investments by larger infrastructure scanning service and software providers such as IBM, Oracle, EMC, and Microsoft, can be expected to give document capture and content management a developmental boost.
The report is based on an Internet survey consisting of 60 questions designed to help understand the costs and dynamics of the scanning and document processing markets. The survey was completed in August and September of 2006 and resulted in 197 responses from end users of scanning and document management solutions. The names of the document and management professionals surveyed were primarily provided by the survey sponsors, who are companies in scanning and document processing or capture markets.
According to the results, the quantity of documents processed per day varied substantially. The average minimum number of pages processed/day was 18,700 but this masked a big variation in different respondents—from a high of 150,000 average per day to a low of 30 documents per day—giving medians of 1,000 average and 5,000 peak documents/day.
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