1) Lease a good copier/scanner that handles large scanning capacity and can scan to PDF. 2) Get a good batch OCR program that will take an image-based PDF and create a PDF text overlay (so the PDF can be full-text indexed). 3) Buy a good document management program, preferably one that can do drag-n-drop document sorting/indexing. You can get all 3 from Ricoh, they have a very good copier/scanner with a proprietary but easy-to-use document management system (based on FreeBSD) that is completely web based and completely integrates with the copier/scanner. A good product for a SMB. -Ross > _____________________________________________ > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Dennis McLeod > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:09 PM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] Document Scanning and Storage > > I'd like to start scanning our boxed up documents. I'd say about 30,000 files total. > Mostly to eliminate the boxes of paper we have. > 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. > I'd like be able to set some permissions as well. (not a deal breaker> ...> ) > I've searched Sourceforge, and have seen knowledgetree, myDMS, contineo, etc, but really would like to hear from someone that is using something similar. > Of course, I use Centos, so> ...> .. > Thanks, > Dennis > > << File: ATT1682181.txt >> ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070912/edc9e00e/attachment-0005.html>