True Cost of DIY Scanning
I used to stare at a mountain of boxes stuffed full of confidential documents that needed to be scanned for record retention purposes. I knew there would be costs, direct and indirect, of scanning those documents in-house. But I also struggled with the decision to out-source my scanning work. So I know where you are coming from because I have been there. But I wish I had taken the time to tabulate the cost of scanning our mountain in-house because this is an estimate of what I would have found:
TRUE COST OF IN-HOUSE SCANNING
|
Task |
Pages per Hour |
Cost per Page |
|
Document Prep |
360 |
4.2¢ |
|
Scanning |
480 |
3.1¢ |
|
Indexing |
100 |
15¢ |
|
Quality Assurance |
1000 |
1.5¢ |
|
Equipment & Training |
Variable |
10¢ |
Yes, I would have figured out that doing my own scanning was costing me approximately 34¢ per page. With an average of 2500 documents in each of my standard-size boxes, I was indirectly spending about $850 for each box. Yikes!
What are you spending on your do-it-yourself scanning program?
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