[rescue] Scanning lots of paper

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

When I lived in the "real world"(TM), I ran a scanning center for a
Pharmaceutical company. We had six scanners, and running them 2 shifts
a day 5 days a week, did about 1.5 million pages a year.

We were able to get 14 pages a minute per scanner, including loading,
sorting, recording, etc.

We then combined them with data files, printed them to images, and printed
the images with a farm of HP IIISi printers running 24/7. 90% of the
software was designed and written by me.

The images and paper were submitted to the FDA. The last job I did was
to produce a "small document", 60,000 pages, but they let us submit only
9,000 on paper and the rest as images.
 
I pity the poor guys who had to read it.* :-)

Geoff.

* Canada's Health protection Bureau was worse, not only did they want
 paper and images, but they had clerks compare each image to it's corresponding
 piece of paper.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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