AmeriScan Inc. - Digital Document Imaging

90% of corporate memory exists on paper.

Of all the pages that get handled each day in the average office, 90% are merely shuffled.

The average document gets copied 19 times.

Companies spend 5% of their total filing cost on equipment, 20% on space and 70% on labor.

A typical 4 drawer file cabinet holds 17,000 pages, costs $25,000 to fill and $2,000 per year to maintain.

Costs to store information:

Paper $4.55/mg
Computer greenbar paper $2.73/mg
Floppy disk $1.25/mg
Microfilm $0.76/mg
Digital Disk $0.06/mg

Companies spend $20 in labor to file a document, $120 in labor to find a misfile document, $220 in labor to reproduce a lost document.

7.5% of all documents get lost completely.

The choice is clear - digital document imaging
and who better than AmeriScan?

*Mantelman's Imaging Guide, 1996

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