Scanners
Management companies need scanners
to digitalize the volumes of paper documentation that piles up for each
community association. There are many
types and models of scanners and the choice is daunting.
Flat bed scanners don’t cut, it but
you need one anyway.
The scanned document is saved as a
.pdf file. There are other file formats
for scanned documents but the .pdf is the universally accepted standard.
High speed scanners with ADF
(automatic document feeds).
How to convert a .pdf file to a WORD
document.
RECOMMENDATION:
We currently recommend the Fujitsu ScanSnap! It is available for less than $500 and
includes a copy of Adobe Acrobat 6.0. It
has automatic everything: auto color
detection, auto page size detection, automatic save to a .pdf file, automatic
file naming, automatic document feeder, automatic skip of blank pages. And it’s fast … scanning15 pages per
minute.