Document Scanning Workstation

[Laurel]

I am tasked with purchasing a new workstation for our company (and am not Mr. Hardware). The workstations main task is running scanning software, reviewing the scanned documents (95% are PDF), and then filing it with a document management system (written in java). We are using a high speed scanner (Canon 5020 with a scsi II connection). The machine will also serve as a backup workstation (needs Microsoft Office products).

In order to maximize performance (we scan lots of documents), are there some hardware items I should purchase rather than the basic off the shelf machine from Dell?

I'm also looking into some OCR software, any suggestions?

Thanks,

 

[GamerExpress]

Originally posted by: Laurel
I am tasked with purchasing a new workstation for our company (and am not Mr. Hardware). The workstations main task is running scanning software, reviewing the scanned documents (95% are PDF), and then filing it with a document management system (written in java). We are using a high speed scanner (Canon 5020 with a scsi II connection). The machine will also serve as a backup workstation (needs Microsoft Office products).

In order to maximize performance (we scan lots of documents), are there some hardware items I should purchase rather than the basic off the shelf machine from Dell?

I'm also looking into some OCR software, any suggestions?

Thanks,

You should have gone with a software solution from someone like Docstar.

Just go with ABBYY for OCR.