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The Kodak i30/i40 Scanners are targeted at departments with document imaging and

general office scanner application needs.

Research from end users who purchase workgroup scanners shows that:

• The primary reason for purchasing a workgroup scanner is for the digitization of

business documents and web publishing. Applications are numerous and include

financial, insurance, accounting, research, education, legal, consulting,

transportation, government and regulatory, and commercial and manufacturing.

• A very strong secondary reason for purchasing a scanner of this type is for “general

office” scanning of photos, graphics materials, magazines, newspapers, applications,

compound documents (photo and text), tear sheets (annual reports, magazines, and

yellow pages), sales collateral, and educational materials.

• Decentralized/Distribution Scanning

The idea behind this approach to scanning is to move digital capture of the business

documents closer to the point of origination as possible. For example, in a

centralized scanning environment, document capture may have occurred at a central

office location. In this scenario, the documents are mailed to the scanning site and

the data or images are not indexed and are not available for use for several days.

Decentralized/distributed scanning moves the capture process closer to the point of

document origination. Scanning is typically conducted by operators who are not

necessarily dedicated to the task. Typically, medium-to-large organizations purchase

dozens or hundreds of scanners in the course of rolling out a decentralized/

distributed imaging project.

• Standalone Workgroup Scanning

This approach to scanning is usually very localized. In other words, the department

that captures documents is also the department that either creates or receives the

business documents primarily for its own use. The scanner host PC may or may not

be attached to a network to share the images with other departments. Typically, one

to a few scanners are purchased by the department manager.

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