Document Scanning

At Marathon we offer a comprehensive document scanning service which encompasses all major formats such as TIFF, PDF, PDF searchable and OCR to Word format. Our document scanning service covers any size of document from a business card up A3. For document scanning or drawing scanning larger than A3 size please refer to large format scanning.

We offer all our potential clients the opportunity to to allow us to do a free sample of our document scanning so that you can see the benefits of our service and the quality of images we produce from even the poorest documents. Whether you have large format drawings, lever arch files or simply reams of paper we will do a sample for you fully indexed and supplied back on CDR.

The following describes the document scanning process from preparation through to release where it is ready to be imported into a document management system.

Preparation is where the document scanning process begins and any staples are removed, pages unfolded and any other obstacles overcome to enable a safe and efficient document scanning process.

Document scanning is carried out on one of our high speed Bell & Howell scanners using the latest Kofax scanning software. Image enhancements such as cropping, deskew and despeckle can be included during the document scanning stage and to further ensure the best possible scan result we also utilise Kofax Virtual Rescan (VRS). We can scan black and white, full colour or even mixed batches of documents thanks to the auto colour detect feature on our scanners.

Indexing of the scanned images ensures that they can be easily searched for and retrieved. This part of the process is essential if the images are to be imported into a document management system. We use Kofax Ascent Capture for this process which enables us to capture and index from any area of the image including barcodes. This index data can be output to almost any format for importing into a document management system.

Quality control is an important part of our process and as an ISO 9002 registered company our clients are assured that all work is quality checked to ensure the best possible image is produced from our document scanning service.

The final process of our document scanning service involves the transfer of all images and data to a suitable storage medium. Currently we use CD-R, DVD, hard disk or we can upload your images to our ftp server for immediate access.

FIlePlus.NET is our software of choice when it comes to document management systems. It is one of the first Windows-based document management systems available. FilePlus software has developed from just an imaging system to a full document management package. For more information contact us.

Large Format Scanning or drawing scanning in bi-tonal, grey scale or colour. We are able to cope with huge quantities of engineering drawings and plans scanned to TIFF or PDF format and indexed to your specific requirements.

We utilise KIP digital scanners in our bureau for the scanning of large format drawings and plans. One of the benefits of these scanners is KIP Real Time Thresholding image processing which delivers optimum results from difficult originals.