Xref: utzoo comp.sys.misc:1576 comp.periphs:1066 comp.text:2115 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!eurtrx!evas From: evas@eurtrx.UUCP (Eelco van Asperen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.periphs,comp.text Subject: Re: Document Scanners Message-ID: <300@eurtrx.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 88 11:47:35 GMT References: <424@mcf.UUCP> Lines: 25 in article <424@mcf.UUCP>, shan@mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani) says: > > 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 ------------------------------ Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam T H E N E T H E R L A N D S ------------------------------ uucp: evas@eurtrx ..!mcvax!eurtrx!evas earn/bitnet: asperen@hroeur5 ------------------------------