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If you are looking to get rid of your paper more quickly, simply buying a faster scanner won't help you. You're going to have to dig a little deeper than that.

For years, OPEX has studied the document scanning process. Like you, we've realized the excessive amount of labor costs associated with scanning. We have not only identified the problem, but have also provided the solution to minimize or eliminate much of that document prep.

REALIZE YOU HAVE A PROBLEM

In most situations, document prep is lost labor. There is no value, just hours of work to get paper ready based on the needs of the scanning device, rather than the needs of the business. The first step to understanding your prep requirements is to realize that you have a problem!

In most cases, if you ask the scanning manager about prep, they will tell you there is no problem at all. Prepped work magically shows up at the front of their scanner and off they go. If you ask the operations manager, they will shrug and tell you it's just the cost of doing business, explaining that if you want to scan, you have to prep, nothing much to talk about. So to understand the issue of prep you have to go back further in the process to understand exactly what takes place with the paper.

AN UNMANAGABLE PROCESS

Take inventory:

How does the paper come to you?

Is it delivered by the post office? Inter-office mail? In banker boxes or just a stack of file folders?

How many people touch it before it is scanned?

Does it go from department to department? Desk to desk?

Person to person?

What do you have to do to it?

Do you open it? Remove staples? Tape torn pages? Sort it into batches? Copy small items or tape them to larger pages? Stamp received dates? Stage it for scanning?

In fact at OPEX we have identified roughly 25 prep activities to date.

* Is there a different scanner that can help mitigate this prep?

* Why you do all of these tasks? Do you perform all these steps for the business? Or are you performing them to match the capabilities of the scanner?

We've heard directly from our customers time and again who verify industry reports that document prep labor accounts for upwards of 70% of the cost of document scanning.

SANITY. RESTORED.

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