Re: Document Scanners

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From: Eelco van Asperen
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1988 11:47

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in article <424@mcf.UUCP>, shan@mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani) says:
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> A group here has been asked to look into the possibility of taking
> boxes and boxes of medical records and documents and converting them
> into some form of archival storage. They initially considered 
> microfilming them but I feel that using the document scanners with
> perhaps WORM devices would be a better alternative. However, we do not
> have any expeirience in this sort of actitivy at all.
> 
Before you dive in and store it all on magnetic or optical storage,
you might want to look at the durability of the media concerned.
I recently saw a documentary about a big library in the UK facing
similar problems and they decided _not_ to use any kind of magnetic
(not sure about optical) storage just for this reason.
I'm no expert in this field; just thought you might like to know.

Eelco van Asperen
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From: evas@eurtrx.UUCP (Eelco van Asperen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.periphs,comp.text
Subject: Re: Document Scanners
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Date: 15 Jul 88 11:47:35 GMT
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