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31 020 8296 7066 | www.northamber.com Document Management Kodak Alaris — The best scanner choice for the office environment What are you scanning? This is the most important factor in determining which scanner you should be using. Your need to digitise documents can range from fairly simple to very complex, but it all boils down to what kind of document it is, and what you need to do with the information that’s on the page. How often do you scan? The volume of scanning that you need to complete in a given day will decide what class of scanner you should buy. If you only plan on scanning a couple items a day, investing in a heavy-duty scanner doesn't make sense. Good options for one-off scanning needs and could be a dedicated small office scanner, or even a scanning app on your smartphone depending on your needs. Does resolution matter? Almost all business document scanners have comparable specifications for resolution, so evaluating devices based on resolution won’t tell you the whole story. What’s more important is the image processing technology that drives your selected scanner and image capture software. To optimise the OCR data from scanned documents, image quality is key. Blurry or obscured scanned images won’t be able to consistently read by OCR software. Do you need optical character recognition? Optical character recognition (OCR) is software that converts scanned images to machine-readable text. This technology unlocks the power of information in your documents, by letting you reuse valuable content that was trapped on the page in a variety of ways. Once your data is digitised, it’s editable, searchable and shareable. View the full Alaris scanners range: w: www.alarisworld.com e: [email protected] KEY FEATURES: • Deskew and auto-cropping • Auto-orientation • Auto-brightness • Sharpening • Colour smoothing • Streak removal • Noise reduction • Background colour dropout Consider your needs. Before you can find the right tool for the job, you have to consider the job itself. You’ll need to have a clear picture of all your scanning needs in order to match those needs to a product later on. Integrated Passport Flatbed Accessory S2000 Series E1000 Series