Cost saving in Bulk Scanning by intelligent use of technology

Challenge

Any bulk scanning for archiving online has to be done intelligently. "Unclean" scans result in large data storage and bandwidth overheads for organizations. This is explained in the example below.

Example

The following is the scanned image of a book. The scan was taken in black and white because the book had no images.

You can clearly see that the image has:

• Almost a grey background because the book was old and its pages were yellowish in colour.
• Has speckles because of aging (uneven oxidation of the pages).
• Edges are black due to shadow effect (the book was quite voluminous).
• The scan in its original form is about 591 KB in size.

Using technology, this scan has been improved to the form as given below:

Image Size reduction = Savings on Bandwidth and Storage cost

In the example above, the original scan was 591 KB. After digital cleaning, the size reduces to 64 KB for the left page and 124 KB for the right page. Thereby, achieving a reduction of about 70%. Moreover, you can clearly see that the page quality has improved quite significantly.

Contact
For all your bulk scanning requirements, please contact Shrivathsa at [scan AT bhagirathi DOT in] or call at +91-9845830632.