Products

Scanning Hardware

Oyster IMS design Document Capture solutions which range in size from sites processing several hundred pages per day to hundreds of thousands per day. Requirements for scanners will vary depending upon whether organisations require a high volume centralised scanning centre or a more distributed model at departmental or even desktop level. Oyster IMS are able to source scanners to suit all possible requirements.

Scanners are mostly differentiated by the following aspects:

Paper size – what size of paper can be processed. Most desktop and workgroup scanners will process up to A4 in size. Departmental and production scanners will process up to A3 in size. Larger format scanners can be sourced if required.
Simplex/Duplex – whether the scanner can scan both sides of the paper at the same time.
Scanning speed – in pages per minute (ppm) or images per minute (ipm) – how fast pages are processed. Images per minute relates to the speed of duplex scanners. Workgroup scanners are around the 25 ppm mark, desktop scanners 30 to 60 and production scanners from 75 up to in excess of 200 ppm.
Flatbed capability – Whether it is possible to scan documents on a glass flatbed to handle particularly fragile documents or documents that cannot be unbound.
Image resolution – Most organisations will scan at resolutions between 150 dpi and 300 dpi for standard work documents. Higher resolution means better image quality but also larger file sizes. Scanning at much higher than 300 dpi is only undertaken for projects with very specific image quality requirements.
Colour capability – Whether the scanner can support black and white bi-tonal images, greyscale or colour images. Colour scanning is becoming more prevalent and many devices now support dual output in black and white and colour or greyscale. Scanners are now also having built in auto detection of colour to change between scanning in black and white and colour on the fly.
Throughput – Though image speed on even smaller specification scanners is becoming higher it is important to understand the expected duty cycle a scanner will need to support through its working life. Some scanners are supported by suppliers at around 1,000 pages per day whilst the production scanners have duty cycles of 100,000 pages per day or even unlimited duty cycles.
Sheet feeder capacity – Most scanners we provide are scanners with automatic document feeders (ADF). The number of pages that can be held within the ADF will vary from 50 sheets to 500 sheets.
Imprinting option – It is possible that some solutions will require documents to be marked when they are scanned as proof of process. It is possible to fit many of the scanners we provide with imprinting devices.

Oyster IMS can provide scanners from the following suppliers, including:

Many of the scanners provided come with some form of image enhancement technology built in such as Kofax VRS, which Oyster IMS recommends. VRS technology from Kofax makes scanning as automated, efficient and easy as possible, while dramatically improving image quality - perfect scans the first time, every time.

Please see the following datasheets for the latest information about Kofax VRS Professional v4.2:

VRS Data Sheet

VRS New Features

VRS White Paper