Discounted Microfilm Scanning, Microfiche Scanning, Aperture Card Scanning, and Imaging Services

Category: Document scanning Florida

Microfilm Scanning for County Recorders

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clerk microfilmYour county clerk serves an important role in the public sector, which can be taken for granted. Your local county clerk issues motor vehicle titles, registrations, marriage licenses, liquor licenses, and ensure elections are conducted according to law. The county clerk records the Board of County Commissioners’ public meetings. These documents could be stored the following formats: microfilm, microfiche, aperture cards, books, or paper documents.

The Electronic Recording Fund is a restricted fund financed by at least half of all document surcharge fees to a special account, which is maintained by the your state’s Secretary of State’s office. The unremitted portion of these fees is used to subsidize the cost of technology for electronic recording.

Clerks can get software which allows users to search for and print records. Users are charged a daily or monthly subscription fee. This revenue helps pay the contract and supports the the scanning, indexing and importing of past records.

If you work at the county clerk’s office, please contact us if you have a desire to digitize your microfilm, microfiche, aperture cards, or documents to import into a system to better engage the public.

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School Records Scanning (Microfiche and Paper)

Ocala County has inked a deal to hire a scanning company to convert school records to digital image. The district will spend $212,500 the first year to hire a company to scan in 997 boxes employee files and 1,251 boxes of current student files. These boxes have around 4.5 million documents. The district will pay $206,600 for computer hardware for online storage, $10,658 for pickup, delivery and shredding, and an annual system maintenance cost of $45,350. The district will also spend $135,674 to scan in 22,500 microfiche and 500 more boxes of student records in Year Two. This second year cost will be $185,024.

Without knowing the details of the school records and requirements, these prices seem like a large corporation won this bid. Such corporations have a large overhead, pay tens of thousands on insurance, and are well-connected. If you work for a school or school district and are looking for a microfiche or paper scanning price quote, feel free to contact Generation Imaging for a more realistic pricing structure, i.e. a much lower cost and simpler solutions.

Generation Imaging has converted numerous records from various schools around America, and references are available upon request. From microfiche to microfilm to documents, your school records- whether they be student, employee, building, or financial records- will be taken care of by Generation Imaging.

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Archival Services and Document Scanning Go Hand in Hand

Archival Services allows you to easily and effectively store and retrieve  documents for your operation. Archival services and Document scanning are services provided to help organizations go paperless and generate a system where you can store huge amounts of information and at the same time create a scheme to locate and view the information very quickly. In cases where you need to build a backup of microfilm from your documents or images, Archival services will has enable the generation of 16mm microfilm or 35mm microfilm.

It is essential to understand your ultimate goal and the purpose of archival services if you are planning on using this service. We can update you on all you need to know about archival services and it won’t cost you a cent. If you don’t know the best solution for your organization,  you may miss out on great opportunities that are available for you. More importantly, archival services can save you time and money if done correctly. But if the best solution is not applied, archival services could may turn out to be inefficient in the long run.

Once archival services is determine to be the best course of action, understanding the  difference between different reduction and microfilm capabilities is only the beginning. A good retrieval system is the one that offers an efficient mechanism for years to come. Archival services should include a reliable back up of the data and a scalable system for the production environment. With the ideal archival services, you should be protected from damage or loss of data.

 

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Scanning Company Turns Ducument System To Digital

Is your document system costing you money? Document storage and filing systems could be costing you in more ways that one. The benchmark has changed, and what used to be efficient just a few years ago may benefit from a scanning company evaluation. Our scanning company is capable to leading the way towards a paperless environment that is more efficient. Some larger companies are already bypassing paper altogether and generating digital information so they may not require a scanning company.

Most office business are not digital friendly and already have many boxes of files with paper documents. There is a cost for storing all these document, whether you store them in a professional  location or in your garage, there is a cost. Also, the cost to maintain and the file and refiling system can be very costly. Our scanning company can run an evaluation to demo this cost. Also, our scanning company can demo a real digital system to perform a comparison for you. When we set your private document system, it will be customized for your own use with your own requirements.

Here is how it can work. A representative from our scanning company will ask you some questions to get familiar with your current system and how it works. We then take some sample documents and create digital images. We the use the your input to develop a digital retrieval system that best fits your needs. The representative from our scanning company will then install a demo in your computer and where you can see the final product in action.

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Turn Office Paperless With Records Scanning

Ever need to search large piles of documents? Records scanning can change that. Records scanning transfers documents to digital for computer use. Records scanning is fast and economical and will save many hours of tedious work in a regular work environment. There is no real need to keep boxes of paper around the office. I addition to taking up too much space, when you need to find a file, you probably would prefer not to have to search through them. Records scanning can definitely help make this dream come true.

Offices that can take advantage of records scanning include medical offices, lawyers, hospitals, schools, and any other office that generates application or work orders on paper. Records scanning is ideal for reducing or eliminating the paper system and convert paper to a paperless work area. Many professional offices are generating digital files but many others are not there yet. But records scanning can bring you to the same level by converting the paper you now have to a digital storage and retrieving system.

Records scanning in South Florida is made possible with our local services. We perform records scanning in our offices and we pick up and deliver to you location. We can install a storage and retrieval system in your own computer or in a special system where we upload your files. This is a very simple process that is available to anyone who has or is generating paper files. Records scanning can be performed on old files and also on new files to keep the system up to date.

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