Creating photo tributes as fast as making a cup of coffee?

If you are in a Funeral home business or in a Photo Publishing business like Heritage Makers you may have turned down or have asked your customers to deliver digital images rather than scan numerous photos for them even if they are ready to pay you handsomely. 

Yes, the reason being, you want to cut out the biggest cost, the most cumbersome activity,  huge resource wasteage activity of the tribute creating process; i.e. scanning of photos on a flat bed scanner.

To scan 50 photos of different sizes on a flat bed scanner, you would take approximately an hour or more to scan. What I have noticed, customers get a minimum of 150 photos or more per project and so the time taken to scan would be multiplied, in this case approximately 3 hours.

Wouldn’t it be nice to reduce the scanning time, lets say scan 50 photos within a minute or 150 photos within 3 minutes? Yes, these speeds are possible with the Kodak’s PS810.

Kodak has 2 high speed photo scanners, Picture Saver Scanning System PS810  (65, 4 x 6 photos a minute)  & a slightly slower scanner PS410 (30, 4 x 6 photos a minute). They have features built in the solution to improve on speed, like one touch button for batch auto rotation, batch image enhancement and directly burn on to CD, DVD and copy to USB drives. It also has red eye removal feature and can even scan mixed sizes of photos in a batch and it crops accordingly.

Picture Saver Scanning System – Youtube video link.

I personally have 20 to 30 albums and not until a few months ago, with the help of the Kodak PS410, I scanned all my photos and now have them digitally ready and eager to share it with family and friends. Being part of the Heritage Makers group, I intend to create a few story books, and other keepsakes now that I have my photos in digital format.

With either one of these scanners, you can now create photo tributes in minutes rather than hours as the most time consuming activity “scanning” is not any more time consuming. Now, with the help of Kodak photo scanners a photo tribute can be prepared in minutes and so can a cup of coffee.

Paramount Document Solutions Inc. is Kodak Authorised Photo Scanning Reseller within North America. If you need to have more information, kindly don’t hesitate to call on us or email us.

Photo Scanner’s webpage http://www.paramountdocs.ca/photo-scanning/

Contact number is 647.289.8907

Em: gerson@paramountdocs.ca

Tax time! Accountants, a brilliant way to increase efficiency – Kodak i2000 Series Scanners

Today’s business runs on information. But when that information is on paper, it can slow you down. Get things flowing faster with the KODAK i2000 Series Scanners. It lets you extract critical information from documents at the point of entry, for quick distribution to decision-makers who need it. So money to be gained isn’t left waiting for choices to be made.

No matter what size your business or department is, the reliable performance of the KODAK i2000 Series Scanners can enable collaboration right from your desktop. It decreases processing time for information that needs to be shared for review, reference, approval, and legal and compliance reasons. This helps increase both internal and external customer satisfaction, and saves your company time and money. Plus, if your business has branch offices or field agents, distributed capture allows document images to be immediately sent to a central location for easy access.

Help your company get ahead with a scanning solution that can bring you increased security, faster internal processes, better teamwork, and a host of other business benefits—the KODAK i2000 Series Scanners.

“The Kodak i2000 Series Scanners have been recommended by CCH Canadian for use with CCH Scan – a leading-edge paperless solution that streamlines your tax preparation workflow.”

Businesses love these scanners because the Kodak’s Smart Touch Scanning feature allows all users – even occasional walk-up users – to scan and send images with ease. With a touch of a button, users can pre-define up to nine scan-to operations, including scanning to PDF, searchable PDF, JPEG and TIFF files, and sending into MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT Servers, Word, email, Web-mail, file folders and any other 3rd party application that can open scanned images.

The Kodak i2000 Series Scanners are available in three models – all duplex – which provide performance levels to meet the information capture needs of small, medium and large businesses, and all backed by a three-year worry-free warranty.

Kodak i2000 Series Scanners – DEMO

Even Small Businesses can profit by going digital.

A survey conducted few years ago, established that manual paper based processes can cost up to 22 times more than the computer assisted document processing. The research went on to confirm, that eliminating manual processes can reduce processing time from 4 hours to as little as 10 minutes.

With manual paper based driven processes, businesses automatically inherit inefficiencies and soaring cost of operations. In the past, small businesses had very few or no computer assisted document processing options. Those available options came with a big price tag that only the large size companies could afford. Today, technologies like document management, document and data capture solutions, be it software or hardware are available and very affordable to small businesses. These technologies help small businesses eliminate manual processes; increase productivity, growth and profitability. Many small businesses have realized this and started evaluating and implementing these systems.

Some limitations of paper based systems:

• Business processes being inefficient
• Too much time spent handling paper documents
• High storage and related costs
• Major cost incurred because the right information is not available, to the right people at the right time
• Stress related to inability to meet compliance mandates
• Trouble keeping sensitive business information secure

How does a small business go digital?

Begin by taking one paper intensive process and get it digital. Use document scanners and store digital documents in a well-organized simple windows folder structure. The best choice would be using a document management system but evaluating one against the requirements of the business is very essential. In a short span of time businesses will see immense improvements and cost savings just on that one process. Select the next paper intensive process and tackle that.

The gains a Business should accomplish by scanning and digitizing of paper documents will be

•       Being able to search documents immediately
•       Preventing the mislaying and misfiling of files
•       Easier to back up and archive records
•       Easy uploading of documents to a central repository
•       Cutting the amount of paper employees must deal with
•       Protecting sensitive information with password controlled access
•       Enabling multiple workers to simultaneously access the same information irrespective of user’s locations
•       Reducing the time to distribute incoming documents
•       Eliminating the need to transport physical documents within and between offices.
•       Getting back the space claimed by file cabinets.

Paper documents aren’t going away anytime soon, but information residing on paper doesn’t have to remain locked in paper. Nor do businesses have to remain chained to manual paper based processes.

Once the first step is taken towards document scanning, in any organization, no matter how small, the advantages are numerous.

Transform your workflow with the push of a button

Kodak Scan Station Pro 550

A simplified network solution that automates data and transactional document capture to feed your business process.

Scan, automatically optimize, separate, index, validate and output—all at the push of a button. Scan Station Pro 550 sends documents, data, and metadata to databases, secured storage, document management systems, output and more

Bottom-line benefits:
* Save per-document costs spent on filing, finding,  and managing documents and data
* Fewer lost documents, greater data security
* Faster time to cash when integrated with your billing system
* Financials and accounts automatically kept up to date
* Streamlined accounts receivable and payable data entry and retrieval
* Greater customer satisfaction through quicker responses and access to all  data in one place, instantly

 

Ideal for:

Healthcare – patient records updated faster and more accurately, ideal for EMR/EHR initiatives.

Food service/restaurant – instantly scan and process delivery receipts.

Insurance – quicker claims entry and settlements.

Legal – faster, reliable and secure archiving of, and access to, critical case-related documents.

Generate out-of-the-box profits with the KODAK Picture Saver Scanning System

Kodak expands its offerings in the photo capture category for the retail and niche service markets with the release of the KODAK Picture Saver Scanning System PS410 and PS810. Businesses gain a service-driven revenue opportunity when they use these systems to help consumers digitize “printed memories”—photo prints, picture collections and keepsake documents. The digital images provide further monetizing opportunities for businesses that offer premium photo products and services available only for digital images and files.

The Picture Saver Scanning System’s available output options include KODAK Picture CD, photo DVDs, photo archive services, premium photo product production, photo book publishing, photo memorials and tributes, digital scrapbooking and online photo services, such as KODAK Gallery.

The PS410 and the higher capacity, feature-enhanced PS810, both offer efficient batch photo scanning driven by hardware and software features. The new KODAK Gentle Photo Separation Module optimizes the scanner’s transport module to protect the physical condition of photo prints. KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology provides advanced image enhancement tools to perform image retouch; red-eye enhancement; image sharpening and red-eye removal. Additional imaging tools include software-based image cleaning and on-the-fly image inspection and quality reviews with a large, one-up view of images as they are scanned. KODAK Picture Scanning Software also supports a new, flexible workflow designed for the busy operation, which allows an operator to seamlessly move between editing and scanning pictures across customer orders.

For more information kindly go to the below link or call 647.289.8907 Gerson Vijayan,

http://graphics.kodak.com/docimaging/CA/en/Products/Photo_Scanning/Photo_Scanning_Systems_Family/Picture_Saver_Scanning_System/index.htm

Eliminate Work…Eliminate Mistakes…Eliminate Costs with e-now from FileBound

e-now is a hosted solution that provides everything you need to convert all of your paper invoices to e-Invoices with the click of a mouse and pass the invoice data directly into your accounting system. e-now also provides single click access to invoices from within your accounting system, automated routing for approvals, and compatibility with SharePoint® 2010 implementations.

How e-now Works

With e-now you can:

• Convert your paper invoices to e-Invoices with a click of the mouse
• Automatically transfer e-Invoices to your accounting system
• Electronically process your invoice approvals
• Store your invoices securely online

With e-now, tomorrow’s promise of e-Invoices is delivered today.

In the past, the cost and complexity of these types of solutions has kept them out of reach for most organizations. With e-now that all changes. The e-now SAS70 certified hosted service removes the up front capital cost and technology resources that most invoice processing solutions require.

e-now is priced at 25¢ per invoice and provides a simple way to calculate return on your investment. Finally, there is an automated invoice processing solution with the capabilities of an enterprise class solution, but priced and delivered to meet the needs of all organizations.

Complete Document Management Solution in a network appliance.

Yes, FileBound Express provides everything you need right in the box. Simply plug the Express appliance into your network and instantly begin realizing the benefits of your own full-featured Document Management Solution.

FileBound Express drives the complexity and high cost of ownership out of Document Management Solutions. The intuitive startup wizard guides you through the initial configuration process so that the system is setup to specifically meet your unique needs.

FileBound Express provides all the tools you need to scan paper documents, import images from your office copier, and save electronic documents from Microsoft Word or other applications.

FileBound Express delivers on the promises of document security, control, and access without the technical complexity and cost typically associated with Document Management Solutions.

FileBound Express specifications:

• Pre-installed with FileBound Document Management Software.
• Easy to install plug and play network appliance.
• Connects to any corporate network with an ethernet cable.
• Provides 10 concurrent user access, with unlimited logins.
• 2 million document storage license.
• Automatic scheduled backups.
• 10 Pre-configured applications with easy setup configuration wizard.

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