Durf,
They scan at 300DPI in to PDFs as they have a legal requirement that every document be legible and an "accurate representation" of the original, including colours etc. So far it's work normally. Would you mind letting me know how you get on? I'm looking at an import of around 70,000 doc files in to sharepoint, and frankly I have no idea whether sharepoint will cope with it (or whether my brain will). Olly -- G2 Support Online Backups Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web: http://www.g2support.com <http://www.g2support.com> From: Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 October 2008 20:28 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Paperless Office / Mass Scanning projects - rule of thumb for storage? Thanks, that's a good start. You don't happen to know what DPI they are scanning at do you? On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Oliver Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, we have a client who recently (about a year ago) went down the same route, only they shunned Sharepoint as the database may have grown too large and the backup for flat files was easier for them. They scan legal related documents, and they are required to scan everything and keep it for 7 years. Mainly A4, but a growing number of A3 as they move back in to older documents. Currently they have 62,000 PDF files, totalling 21GB. Each one named and sorted in to a sub folder based on age and type of document. Dont know if that helps. Olly From: Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 October 2008 19:59 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Paperless Office / Mass Scanning projects - rule of thumb for storage? Hey guys - Anyone ever do a huge paperless office conversion? This will be for a construction firm, scanning tons and tons of old documents into a Sharepoint document library. We're just trying to size the storage, and other than "really really big" I'm not finding I have a good rule of thumb for estimating how much they need. The Sharepoint developers just shrugged. Anyone have a good rule of thumb for scanning documents en masse? How to figure the disk cost per, say, banker's box full of documents or something? Thanks, Durf -- -------------- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! -- -------------- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
