Pearl Scan Solutions Document Management & Document Scanning

London organisations digitising Microfiche and microfilm

Mon, 08 February 2010 12:13:00 +0000

It seems the country’s capital city organisations are finally getting round to digitising the archived microfilms and microfiche records which they have been storing for a number decades in ...

New Year and a new decade means a new start in the office

Wed, 13 January 2010 13:13:00 +0000

2010 signals the start of a new decade. This usually means fresh starts in many areas of business with organisations looking to become more efficient and possibly could finally signal vast reductions in worldwide ...

Pearl Scan gains skills pledge certificate to add to accreditations

Fri, 11 December 2009 12:13:00 +0000

The skills pledge recently made and authorised for Pearl Scan Solutions ensures that the company is making a public commitment, backed by the Government, to develop the skills of the workforce in line with our organisations needs. The purpose of the skills pledge is to ...

The ups and downs of online data storage

Thu, 15 October 2009 16:13:00 +0000

It seems more and more company offices, organisational departments and even people on their home computers are storing more and more data online these days. Here we take a look at why data is being stored, why this is so convenient and any ...

Electronic Training courses changing the way our society learns

Wed, 07 September 2009 13:13:50 +0000

Every industry requires training at some level and it seems electronic training courses or ‘E-Learning’ has vastly overtaken the old paper booklet style method used to conduct training courses in countless different industries, but what are the upsides to ...

Photograph and slide scanning helping to bring old memories alive

Wed, 19 July 2009 13:13:50 +0000

Most people will have old photographs stored away from past golden moments such as holidays, family snapshots, events and other memorable occasions and in some case people even hold hundreds of small 35mm slides from ...

Archiving the deceased. Finally digitising burial records

Fri, 10 July 2009 15:13:59 +0000

Councils all over the country have offices which contain burial and cemetery records for each person buried in public cemeteries. These records have been gathering up massively over time and some cemetery offices are now pushed for space because of ...

British offices printing out 8 mile high piles of documents - The damning truth

Thu, 18 June 2009 12:13:59 +0000

According to a document management survey British office workers print out a mountain of paper which measures over eight miles high every year! This is a total of around 120 billion pieces of paper with the average office worker printing out around ...

Google’s Book scanning technology secret finally revealed!

Wed, 04 June 2009 16:14:29 +0000

Google has been keeping very quiet about the details of their book scanning technology which has seen them digitise over a million books recently without manual processing of individual pages and as little human tampering as possible. The software that is normally used to scan books, called ...

Google mass book scanning debate continues

Wed, 28 May 2009 12:14:29 +0000

Further controversy is arising over Google’s plan to scan and digitise millions of books. More publishers were invited by SharedBook this week to voice their opinions on the mass book scanning and archiving project which Google have ...

Corporate bosses concerned over office data storage methods

Wed, 21 May 2009 16:14:24 +0000

Bosses of top corporate organisations have recently been alerted to the methods their employees are using to store confidential office information. A recent survey by Tower software shows that 55% of employees...

Solving the problem of document overflow. Dont be another statistic

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:22:24 +0000

This refers to our last report on the alarming statistics involving document management. The first 6 of these problems mentioned can be solved by using...

Important office statistics involving document handling

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:18:24 +0000

Many office managers are either unaware or haven’t got the time to realise the amount of time and costs that is spent on document management within the office. What actual type of document management you say?...

How we can raise the value of paper for the environments sake

Wed, 09 Apr 2009 10:18:24 +0000

Though it is true that we now live in an age based around e-mail and internet it is still sometimes necessary for the ink on paper approach. However there is still a lack of value placed on paper today and the ink on paper approach isn’t always necessary. Any company wishing to take a more environmentally friendly approach should...

Choosing the right scanning method for larger documents

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:18:24 +0000

When you need to electronically convert oversized documents like architectural drawings, maps or engineering blueprints, it is helpful to have quick and easy scanning ...

Organisations still throwing away cash during recession

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:37:31 +0000

Even though the media is kicking up a huge fuss about the recession and how it is affecting organisations throughout the UK, it seems many companies are failing to recognise areas of the business in which they are wasting large quantities of cash. One of these areas which go un-noticed is the management of documents and paper flow, sounds simple but is actually a very costly area...

Microsoft Sharepoint for Document management

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:53:03 +0000

Microsoft Sharepoint is the fast up and coming document management system around the world today and more offices are taking this on board. Recent survey results announced at the Info Ireland Online event by AIIM Europe show that 58% of Irish businesses are considering using MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Services) for their documents and records management within the next two years.

How can Scanning and Electronic Archiving help you?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:34:04 +0000

It is believed that scanning and archiving documents is an extra cost to office budgets and is even considered a luxury to some organisations. In fact this process will save you money in the long run and organise an office which will run 20% more effectively than normal.

Document Scanning help for the Credit Crunch

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:16:42 +0000

Many companies are cutting costs to stay afloat in the current financial climate. Pearl Scan are also assisting small to large businesses in this area by offering more manageable prices and time saving document management processes.

Data capture helping companies process data

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:57:19 +0000

Data Capture services are helping more companies streamline their data entry.
By capturing documents electronically the information from forms and documents is entered directly into they system with text searchable features, eliminating the constant requirement for data entry.