Large law firms have invested hundreds of thousands of pounds on monolithic, expensive and complicated scanning operations with slews of top-range scanners, operators and a cast of supporting techies. Typically, these operations are models of efficiency. The problem is that the documents still live, breathe and work in the departments.
Usually, documents only visit the scanning area when they are ready to retire to the warehouse: scanning desperately needs to be pushed out to the work units. But inexpensive, reliable, light-duty scanning appliances have not been available – until now.
