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Archive Builders assists organizations with their plans for document management, document imaging systems and digital libraries. One of our most valuable services has proven to be advice and discussion of document management plans drawn up by organizations considering a system installation. We also offer onsite systems analysis, requirements planning and assistance in writing system specifications.

Our extensive experience in the field provides us with the insight to ask the necessary questions and clarify the issues that proposed systems are designed to address.

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Quick Facts About Document Imaging:

1 scanned page (8 1/2 by 11 inches, A4) = 50 KiloBytes (KByte) (on average, black & white, CCITT G4 compressed)

1 File Cabinet (4 drawer) of Paper (10 thousand pages) (Scanned) = 1 CD-ROM or CD-WORM

2 File Cabinets of Paper (Scanned) = 10 cubic feet = 1,000 MBytes = 1 GigaByte (GByte)

10 File Cabinets of Paper (Scanned) = 5 GigaByte (GByte) = 1 DVD-WORM (Write Once) (2 sided)

20 File Cabinets of Paper (Scanned) = 10 GigaByte (GByte) = 1 DVD-ROM (Stamped) (2 sided, 4 layers)

2,000 file cabinets = 1,000 GigaBytes = 1 TeraByte (TByte) = 200 DVDs

1 box (in inches: 15 1/2 long x 12 wide x 10 deep) = 2,500 pages = 1 file drawer = 2 linear feet of files = 1 1/4 cubic feet = 125 MBytes

8 boxes = 16 linear feet = 2 file cabinets = 1 GByte

8,000 boxes = 16,000 linear feet = 1,000 GBytes = 1 TByte

Archive Builders
1209 Manhattan Avenue
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
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