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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">1) Lease a good copier/scanner that handles large scanning capacity and can scan</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">to PDF.</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">2) Get a good batch OCR program that will take an image-based PDF and create a</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">PDF text overlay (so the PDF can be full-text indexed).</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">3) Buy a good document management program, preferably one that can do drag-n-drop</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">document sorting/indexing.</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">You can get all 3 from Ricoh, they have a very good copier/scanner with a</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">proprietary but easy-to-use document management system (based on FreeBSD) that</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">is completely web based and completely integrates with the copier/scanner. A</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">good product for a SMB.</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">-Ross</FONT>
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<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">From: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">centos-bounces@centos.org [</FONT><A HREF="mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">] </FONT><B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">On Behalf Of</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Dennis McLeod</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Sent: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:09 PM</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">To: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">centos@centos.org</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Subject: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">[CentOS] Document Scanning and Storage</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">I'd like to start scanning our boxed up documents. I'd say about 30,000 files total.</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Mostly to eliminate the boxes of paper we have. </FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">I'd like to scan them, store them, Have some sort of index, and be able to retrieve them on multiple machines. I think PDF would be the desired format.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">I'd like be able to set some permissions as well. (not a deal breaker…)</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">I've searched Sourceforge, and have seen knowledgetree, myDMS, contineo, etc, but really would like to hear from someone that is using something similar.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Of course, I use Centos, so…..</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Thanks,</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Dennis</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma"> << File: ATT1682181.txt >> </FONT>
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