We are always asked prior to a project, "How much storage space will this need?" It's a fairly easy calculation. If you can estimate the number of pages/images which will be scanned, the dpi utilized and will the final pictures be black and white, you can calculate a rough estimate from the general storage size of the task.
As a rule of thumb, black and white images scanned at 200 dpi are typically 50 KB. For color, the average image size can be 30 to 200 times as large as a comparable black and white image - consequently, estimating storage requirements for a color scanning project are a bit more complicated. Just use this rule of thumb - it's going to be a heck of a lot more than black and white. There is good news; in today's world, memory is cheap so storing your color images is not cost prohibitive or difficult. A 1 TB SATA hard drive can be purchased for about $100.
Recently, we had been performing a conversion project for a customer that required 300 dpi and color detection scanning. Approximately 30% from the pictures were in colour and needed considerable more space to store. The general task needed more than 1 TB (that's right kids; over 1000 GigaBytes) of storage for the raw scanned pictures.
We needed to scan onsite and then procedure the images back at the office. Fortunately, we could compress the colour images using PSI Capture; however, the general project will still take about 500 GB to shop all of the pictures and index information. Again, memory is inexpensive and our customer rapidly implemented a answer to store all from the pictures and information.
Off-site hosted storage is becoming a more viable answer as web access speed increase and also the cost of memory decreases. Twin Imaging now has the ability to provide our customers up to 1 Petabyte of Tier III hosted storage. Our service will offer secure hosted access with content managed answer to easily organize and search for your hosted content. Please contact sales@twinimaging.com or 760-683-7398 for more info.
As a rule of thumb, black and white images scanned at 200 dpi are typically 50 KB. For color, the average image size can be 30 to 200 times as large as a comparable black and white image - consequently, estimating storage requirements for a color scanning project are a bit more complicated. Just use this rule of thumb - it's going to be a heck of a lot more than black and white. There is good news; in today's world, memory is cheap so storing your color images is not cost prohibitive or difficult. A 1 TB SATA hard drive can be purchased for about $100.
Recently, we had been performing a conversion project for a customer that required 300 dpi and color detection scanning. Approximately 30% from the pictures were in colour and needed considerable more space to store. The general task needed more than 1 TB (that's right kids; over 1000 GigaBytes) of storage for the raw scanned pictures.
We needed to scan onsite and then procedure the images back at the office. Fortunately, we could compress the colour images using PSI Capture; however, the general project will still take about 500 GB to shop all of the pictures and index information. Again, memory is inexpensive and our customer rapidly implemented a answer to store all from the pictures and information.
Off-site hosted storage is becoming a more viable answer as web access speed increase and also the cost of memory decreases. Twin Imaging now has the ability to provide our customers up to 1 Petabyte of Tier III hosted storage. Our service will offer secure hosted access with content managed answer to easily organize and search for your hosted content. Please contact sales@twinimaging.com or 760-683-7398 for more info.
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