[thelist] High-Speed ADF / Duplex Scanner

[Jeff Wilhelm]

Ron,

Absolutely -- I have no desire to reinvent the wheel (or waste money). I
will get quotes for outsourcing as well (India, Costa Rica, etc...)

Thanks!
Jeff


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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of
Luther, Ron Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 12:26 PM To:
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ADF / Duplex Scanner 

> Jeff Wilhelm asked about hardware:
> 
> > > We need to be able to scan in two-sided product
> > > registration cards at a high speed. We are talking
> > > like 500,000+ a month. 
> 
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> 
> Sounds expensive!  ;-)
> 
> ... and not just for the scanner ... you'll need people
> to move that paper around ... space for the work ...
> people to process these _through_ the scanner ...
> manually key the failures ... space for storage or secure
> disposal after scanning ... that's a pretty fair number
> of documents to play with!     
> 
> One alternative to owning the iron (and the process)
> would be to outsource the scanning. It might be worth at
> least taking a look at a few bids from data entry
> services. I'm pretty sure you could define whatever
> fields you wanted, negotiate the SLA, take some kind of
> daily (or x time a day) FTP     
> 
> feed to load into your db for analysis, and pay for the
> optical storage backup and paper disposal. 
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> RonL.