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Backfile, Unblocked<\/p>\n

Stop paying to handle paper multiple times.<\/h1>\n

Digitizing decades of records looks like a scanner purchase, but most of the money goes to labor: sorting, unstapling, inserting separator sheets, restacking, and then scanning. OPEX\u00ae<\/sup> archive scanning solutions take the extra touches out of backfile conversion, whether you rethink your capture process or keep the one you have.<\/p>\n

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The Real Blocker<\/p>\n

Prep is where backfile projects go to stall<\/h2>\n

Every document in your archive gets touched before it ever reaches a scanner. Staff pull staples, sort by type, tape down receipts, and insert separator sheets to mark where one file ends and the next begins. Each touch is labor you pay for.<\/p>\n

Separator sheets are the quiet double charge. You pay someone to put more paper into the job, and then you pay again to scan and store the pages you just added.<\/p>\n

Price per image hides all of this. Count how many times a person touches each document instead, because that number drives what a backfile project really costs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Up to 5\u00d7<\/p>\n

How many times documents were handled before scanning at Guarantee Trust Life, prior to moving to OPEX One-Touch scanning. Afterward, prep labor costs fell 65%.<\/p>\n

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Choose Your Approach<\/p>\n

Two ways to unblock your backfile<\/h2>\n

Some teams are ready to change how capture happens and mitigate prep at the source. Others have a capture and content management stack that works, and they want better hardware feeding it. OPEX builds for both.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Path A \u00b7 Rethink capture<\/p>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n

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Mitigate prep with One-Touch scanning<\/h3>\n

Falcon+\u00ae<\/sup><\/a> and Gemini\u00ae<\/sup><\/a> scanners with CertainScan\u00ae<\/sup> software let operators open a file and scan it in the same motion. Imaging, classification, and sorting happen in a single pass, so most prep work never has to happen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n