12/04/2024    David Secord, DPM

Scanning Paper Records (John Moglia, DPM)

When I transitioned my office from paper, I rented
a scanner and did it myself. Commercial scanners
are able to do a lot of pages in a short amount of
time. I converted my entire office in a weekend.
Here is some data on the scanner I rented: BancTec
IntelliScan XDS

BancTec has, once again, stepped to the forefront
of the marketplace with the introduction of
IntelliScan, a revolutionary, next-generation
document processing suite that redefines speed and
produces superior, higher resolution images. The
latest in BancTec's proven line of integrated
solutions for high-speed, high-volume, multi-
application document processing, IntelliScan
delivers new scanning speeds of up to 550 pages
per minute, accelerating job processing times and
volumes for your company.

And, IntelliScan's groundbreaking image-capturing
capabilities – up to 600 dpi optical resolution –
allow your business to capture images with detail
that is not readable by the naked eye, including
scanning fingerprints, high-quality color
photographs and much more. Duplex scanning with
goldenrod color dropout for receipt scanning as
well as various-size media scanning ability are
all stock.

As you can see from the photos, they also have
really large machines which can handle thousands
of pages a minute (if you have your files dropped
off at the location.) I decided to get rid of my
physical radiographs as well and bought a UMAX A3
size scanner with a transparency adapter to scan
the films and then have a reclamation company take
the films to reclaim the silver and dispose of the
films for me. That was time consuming and done
over months.

Panasonic also makes a line of high-capacity
scanners. I’m sure there are others. It is likely
that you wouldn’t buy one of these. The picture
detailing the large machine is a version which
cost $500,000.00. If you don’t have time to do
this yourself, there are companies who will do it
for you and then shred the files.

David Secord, DPM, McAllen, TX

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