Feb 14, 2017 | Blog
Keeping Your Equipment Operational For a little piece of mind Do you remember your first car? My first car was a gift from my sister-in-law’s parents and it was a seemingly invincible 1988 Oldsmobile. I treated this car like many people treat their scanning equipment....
Jan 26, 2012 | Blog
Recommended Workflow for Large Format Scanning A workflow process is the automation of a business process that can be fully automated or simply part of the automated process. So many times, we jump into the process because it seems so simple. Until you get into the...
Oct 4, 2011 | Blog
Is there Quality Assurance In your workflow? Throughout my years in the Document Management Industry, I kept hearing about how great the quality of the images were. But did anyone actually verify the quality? Many vendors talked about how their software can automate...
Jul 27, 2011 | Blog
To Name or Rename a Drawing, That is the Question A few months ago, I recall a dialog thread on the issue of renaming scanned images. The question was should you rename your image files? My initial response is “why would you do that?” In this case, it was assumed the...
Jun 1, 2011 | Blog
It’s All About Control with Large Format Documents During the last few projects of scanning engineering drawings, there have been subtle reminders about some techniques I learned over 15 years ago. Whether you are a service bureau or doing a project in-house, I...
May 2, 2011 | Blog
Bounce, Swiffer, Rainex – Helping Protect Scanning Equipment Last week I had the fortunate opportunity to work Fred Pagoni from Colortrac, a colleague for over 15 years. We have both been involved in the “large format” industry. It’s amazing that with so much...
Oct 20, 2010 | Blog
Document Management for CAD Last week there was a posting on a LinkedIn forum for AUGI (Autodesk User Group International) members that read: “There is constant discussion regarding CAD Standards in the industry. One topic related to this; Document Management is...
Oct 5, 2010 | Blog
Collaboration and One Source of the Truth In a software demo for a Content Management application, there were two slides about Collaboration I really related to. These two slides are my favorite because the represent the two types of way we share information and what...
Sep 15, 2010 | Blog
Data About Metadata – Indexing Large Format Documents Metadata is “data that provides information about other data”, but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. For the last 13 years, I have learned there are no...
Aug 30, 2010 | Blog
Smart and Smarter – It’s not just OCR I recently received a call from a government agency looking for a cost to get their engineering documents in a digital format. Their first question they asked was “What will it cost to get my drawings scanned into AutoCAD?” At...
Aug 25, 2010 | Blog
Information – You Can See the Forest through the Trees To get out of the 100+ degree temperatures in Las Vegas, last week I decided to go North to cool off. I was staying at our cabin in Heber, Utah with no cell phone service, no internet and no cable TV. You...
Aug 10, 2010 | Blog
Large (Format) Decision: Stay Single? As anyone begins looking to implement imaging, it is an automatic understanding that a document file will typically be a single file with multiple pages, possibly with sections to separate the documents. For most of us, however,...
Aug 2, 2010 | Blog
Spreading the Word About the Value of Document Management After 20 years of experience in the CAD and GIS industry, I fell into Document Management. There served as my foundation for understanding and knowing the large format industry. When I began down this road, it...
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