When you need your documents scanned and don’t have time to do it yourself or hire a service, using local walk-in scanning locations can provide a perfect alternative for quickly finding nearby scanning.
In this video and transcript below learn more about where and how to find nearby scanning services, including what is walk-in scanning and how much it costs, a step-by-step guide to finding your closest location, how to prepare for walk-in scanning, and how the process works.
When you have too many files to scan yourself but not enough to schedule a large-scale service, walk-in scanning is the solution.
Retail scanning locations provide a fast and inexpensive way to scan, and with locations scatted across the country and in most major cities, walk-in scanning is always easy to find.
Just like it sounds, with walk-in scanning you can simply stop by and have you documents scanned on the spot.
When you come in your pages are run through high-volume scanners, making most projects fast enough to finish while you wait. Once the scanning is complete your new digital copies are returned on thumb drives or CDs.
Walk-in scanning works as a price per page service, and on average document scanning costs between 7–12 cents per page scanned.
Despite that though, it’s important to keep in mind that scanning prices can vary from location to location.
If you’re planning on bringing in documents to one of our nationwide locations, here arecan a few tips to make sure your scanning goes smoothly:
Walk-in is a price per page service, and to get a good estimate for a project’s cost you need to calculate how much you have to scan. On average a standard file box holds 2,000–2,500 pages.
If multiple sheets are connected, scans may not capture parts of the page that are in shadow or can’t be pressed fully on the scanner. To ensure you get the full image be sure to remove staples, paper clips, and other bindings.
It’s important to be able to still maintain your record retention tracking after making a digital transition. Before scanning, organize and label boxes based on their retention times.
Like removing bindings, it’s important to smooth folded corners and wrinkled documents to be sure that you’re capturing the full image of the files you scan.
When you bring in your document to a walk-in location there’s typically a 4 step scanning process:
1. When you bring in your files for scanning the number of pages is first calculated and you’re given a project price.
2. Next the files are scanned and digitized using high-volume scanners capable of handling over 100 pages per minute.
3. During scanning tools like optical character recognition (OCR) can be implemented for files you plan to use and edit after they’re scanned.
4. Finally, once your scanning project is complete your new digital copies are returned on a thumb drive, CD, or another storage device.
Scan Guru specializes in helping you find the right scanning services for your needs no matter what size project you have. To have our experts help your figure out the best solution for your project, fill out the form or give us a call at (+91) 9311492809.
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