Friday 29 November 2013

Microfiche Scanner In Digital Archiving

By Georgia Diaz


Many people are faced with enormous problem of viewing very tiny scanned images when archiving their digital files. These images are too small to be seen by the naked eye and would require magnifying equipment to be viewed properly. This problem can now be solved through the use of microfiche scanner in a process called microfiche scanning.

This scanning process has been utilized by bureaus, agencies, institutions and similar large scale consumers in order to retain the information from the digital images. The archived data can then be easily published and retrieved by the various employees in the organization who needed the pertinent information. Even data from handwritten notes of the scanned images can be taken out and searched as data for better sharing of information among the different employees.

Organizations that use microfiche machine to archive their digital files enjoy the benefit of more efficient, dynamic, and accurate information sharing, integration, and comparison. Employees are also able to complete their tasks more quickly and rapidly finish their reports on the history and other relevant information of their archived assets. Hence, such organization benefits from faster turnaround time, better flow of work outputs, and higher volume of transactions.

What's more amazing about this process is that scanned images in this machine are actually magnified before being saved. A previously unreadable image with poor resolution can be enhanced into a more readable format with separate files for each image. Instead of the usual one to one scanned output of the normal paper scanner, the microfiche machine can produce one to twenty-four scans which are highly readable compared with the original copy.

For those organizations who are contemplating on going for the machine, it is imperative to fully understand their requirements beforehand. A high-end kind of machine can cost a lot of money, probably in the thousands. It is therefore necessary to ask the right questions and watch out for the manufacturer or vendor specifications before finally taking the product.

Some microfiche vendors do not have readily available technical staff to maintain their product after purchase. These vendors just depend on contractors abroad to update and maintain the software of the products they sell. It is strongly advisable therefore to buy only the machine from vendors with development team under their wings who are readily available to update and make necessary development in cases of innovations that come along with the machine.

If the organization is not keen into spending large amount of money for the microfiche machine, there is also a much cheaper way to digitally archive the information using the same process. There are scanning companies that offer digital scanning system with various available options to choose from. There are even scanning companies that can provide free tests in order for the organization to get a glimpse of the actual output before proceeding with the actual scanning process for the entire project at hand.

An organization or company can choose to either buy a microfiche machine or have their files digitally archived by a scanning company. The microfiche scanner has the capability to save the files into pdf or jpeg depending on the organization's preference for easy retrieval and search of information. Whatever options the organization or company decides to take for their data archiving need, the call is now up to managers or decision makers to take. Enjoy saving the files!




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