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Documents and information are the knowledge base of any organization. But keeping that info trapped as paper or spread across disks, thumb drives, or computers limits the value an organization can receive from that knowledge. ARC’s scanning services helps you unleash the power of those documents.
Our document scanning services will help you have complete access to your paper documents in a digital format. We will assist you with quick search, document retention policies and go forward scanning plans. We can also support you with document information management in the cloud and easy access via mobile devices
We scan and organize your digital documents, so you can find what you are looking for quickly and easily. Digital documents allow for quick access, sharing and managing of all your documents. It makes it easy and fast to find exactly what you are looking for in seconds thanks to improved searchability. With paper documents, valuable time is wasted searching through physical documents and storage: an average employee loses 1-2 hours per day looking for the info they need. ARC scanning services give you that time and money back.
ARC’s scanning services take full advantage of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to capture all the text on your documents, making it easy to search for information using keywords.
ARC’s scanning services enable you to quickly and securely access your digital information from anywhere, on virtually any device.
Document scanning services allows you to securely transform all your business assets such as blueprints, medical records and contracts or student records, into digital files improving productivity and collaboration among your team members. Every department in your organization such as human resources, accounts receivable, and legal, can benefit from scanning their documents. In addition, Physical and locally stored digital documents are at risk from natural disasters, and social engineering theft. Leveraging highly-encrypted, cloud-based storage and management ensures the best level of security for your information.
By digitizing your documents and digitally storing them you can save storage fees as well as valuable space in the office. In addition, you save money and time as your teams find what they need faster and more easily, no matter where they are, on the go.
We have 6 document scanning super centers certified for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy thanks to our System and Organization Controls (SOC) certifications.
In conclusion, your data will be safe and secure with us. We can handle your most sensitive documents
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) penalties can be enforced against entities found to be non-compliant resulting in hefty fines, potential legal action and poor publicity for your organization.
Having access to documents that contain PHI and PII means your organization must follow strict procedures to protect that information. Leverage ARC's HIPAA compliant service centers and cloud platform to meet these requirements.
Maintaining data privacy is a HIPAA requirement. Secure your documents that contain PHI and PII with the appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards that ensure confidentiality, maintain the integrity of your sensitive data, and prevent loss or breach.
I had a fantastic experience at Arc Document Solutions getting my architectural drawings scanned. Scott and Linda were incredibly kind helpful and professional making the process smooth and efficient. The scanning was done remarkably fast and the quality of the... Read more
I needed some large drawings scanned. Since I am not a business, I was not sure if ARC was what I needed. Tom was responsive, professional and fast. It was a pleasure to go from unsure, to job well done... Read more
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Shelly and the ARC crew stepped up and took care of a large, last minute scanning job for us. The customer service was awesome. Shelly answered our many questions and emails with a positive, helpful attitude and turned a last... Read more
ARC is the place to go! I’ve spent the past week trying to find a place that can do some simple scans of drawings done on trace paper. Every other place I went to claimed they couldn’t do it and... Read more
Had to get some important documents scanned and made available to send via email to my lawyers ASAP. After doing a quick google search, was recommended here…called to find out if they could help me, and a very nice man... Read more
I recently had the pleasure of working with ARC Document Solutions in Atlanta, and I must say they exceeded all my expectations. As someone who had been searching for weeks to find a reliable place to have my documents properly... Read more
Harris Waste Mgmt. Group, Inc in Cordele, GA engaged ARC Document Solutions for scanning 5-Size drawings dating back to the 40's. They scanned over 4,000 drawings and have exceeded our expectations of the scanning quality. Highly recommend this company with... Read more
Our company has used ARC Docs a handful of times. The most recent was for a scanning job of some drawings that were over 30 years old and some with torn edges as such. This was my first interaction with... Read more
Great experience using ARC. I've worked with a few scanning/printing companies before as an interior designer and they have gone above and beyond with their care. They were extremely prompt with scanning my documents and even called me to confirm... Read more
We had 20 boxes of old records and a huge roll of blueprints scanned. Over the years people had taken records out and replaced them in the wrong boxes so it was mess. Since we had the option to make... Read more
Wow! I was totally floored (in a good way) by service I received at ARC Document Solutions. I needed a large blueprint edited and shrunk down to a manageable size to use for a pdf. ARC scanned the original blueprint,... Read more
I was overwhelmed with joy... After contacting four other printing companies, and finding no help, I called ARC Document Solutions and spoke with Tony. I have multiple documents pieced together in the form of a scroll. It is 42 inch... Read more
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The quality of scans was very impressive and the staff was amazing to work with! This is such a great company!
A friend of mine got their scans done here and they look awesome! She also told me that the staff was super nice! I definitely recommend this place for anyone that needs something scanned or any other paper related needs!
We had a very fragile old rolled paper with a family tree created in 1968. I searched the web and found ARC had a large format scanner. The ARC team was amazing. They looked at the originals, came up with... Read more
The ARC team was very efficient in their response and scanned my company's large set of drawings nicely. They were able to pick up our drawings within 2 hours of me emailing them, and had a quick turn around. Thank... Read more
Absolutely outstanding service from ARC's Omaha location. While clearly a very small job for them, ARC scanned and digitized over 35 years of military service records in less than 10 minutes. The clarity was better than the originals! Very friendly... Read more
Had a set of as-built plans scanned to pdf. Fantastic customer service, scanned drawings are very clear and readable, and price was very fair. Can’t ask for more.
This is my first time needing to have large (36''x24'') engineering documents copied and I initially had no idea where to go. My situation was that I needed digital (PDF) copies of the paper engineering drawings from a previous construction... Read more
Great service and exactly what we were looking for. Services were to scan our office files for two companies and shred when completed. We had tried another company before and they messed things up and made us very wary of... Read more
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I'm a one-man shop that was treated like their most important corporate client. And the results were even better than I hoped. Scanning old, yellowed blueprints so they look like a modern digital document isn't easy no matter how much... Read more
I talked to Linda on the phone before coming in she was so sweet and assured me that they could definitely take care of my project for me. I met Rudy at the store and his energy is contagious, so... Read more
Ours was not an ordinary print job. We have 3 sets of German language newspapers that were printed in 1933. They were carried out of Germany by refugees in 1938. The pages are old and crumbling. They have historical significance... Read more
Kristen and her team were amazing scanning and archiving thousands of old blueprint drawings. They brought us into the 21st century!
What a great outfit. Even though I had only one box of manuscripts to scan (admittedly my life's work as a scholar and writer) John Moore and his colleagues treated me with all the care and expertise they would offer... Read more
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We requested for scanning of 330 pages of 24X36 size plans, and Mark Presler completed the work before end of business the same day! ARC Stockton staff are responsive and provide excellent service.
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Steve and Scott were great scanning & digitizing plans immediately for use in an important survey with a tight deadline.
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This company was fantastic to work with 5 stars. Customer service was fantastic!
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Scanning has never been easier, get in touch and we will be happy to assess your document scanning project.
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Here are the steps of our general process for document scanning:
Your documents and information are safe with us. Our team of document conversion experts keeps a highly secure chain of custody as seen in the workflow below meeting the most stringent requirements. Our facilities and processes are HIPAA compliant.
Barcode all boxes
and documents
Inventory and secure
seal documents at
customers sites
Secure transport
of documents to
HIPAA center
Inventory & confirm sealed boxes at
HIPAA center
Secured and
surveilled storage
Prepare documents in
secure environment
Scan documents, data
encrypted at rest
Document indexing and
data normalization
Document
quality review
Image processing
and OCR
Image and data migration,
encrypted at all times
Document
re-assembly
Secure transport of
documents, return to
customer
Document destruction
at HIPAA center
With 140 scanning centers in the US and Canada, we are where you are.
Thanks to our extensive document scanning team, we can meet your most urgent request
Our document scanning services can accommodate scanning projects of any volumes or complexity levels. We can scan almost any type of documents
We simplify document scanning. You box it and we do the scanning. Only $219 per box (CAD $275/box). With 140 scanning centers to serve you, we will digitize your documents in no time.
Convert all your oversized documents to digital content for easier access and better collaboration. Any business and industry can benefit from digitally converting their large format documents. This digital conversion will improve your teams’ productivity and will speed up transitioning to a paperless office.
Scan and digitize large format documents such as maps, drawings, and blueprints to gain major benefits such as improved accessibility and enhanced security. You are always looking or working from the latest set easily shareable. And storing is no longer an issue, and you can save valuable physical space.
Improve patient record management and security level thanks to electronic medical records or EMR. By scanning and digitizing all your paper documents including medical records, facilities documentation as well as billing and accounts receivable paperworks will make your healthcare organization more efficient and secure. We meet HIPAA requirements and can handle PHI/PII records.
Save money on storage costs and save valuable space when you scan and digitize all legal and business documents. The digital conversion will give you and your team access to your crucial information anytime and from anywhere.
Services included:
Short answer: Most documents can be scanned
Document Scanning is the process of converting hard copy paper documents into electronic file formats to reduce storage costs, and allow more flexibility in searching and sharing the documents with others.
Yes, ARC scanning facilities are HIPAA compliant and can handle and scan documents containing PHI (Protected Health Information) and PII (Personally Identifiable Information).
We can scan paper as small as a business card, all the way up to Maps and Drawings 60” wide by any length, even 20 feet long!
Yes, our methods of scanning can create a multi-page file, most commonly PDF, even having thousands of pages into one PDF file.
95% of all paper we scan will be converted to a PDF file. On rare occasions, we also scan to a TIFF file format and sometimes others.
Yes, be sure to ask for “Color” or “Auto-Color” when requesting service from your vendor. Auto-Color is a method where the scanning equipment examines the page image as it is being scanned, and if there is color present on the original page, then the images saved will also be in color. Otherwise if there is no color on the original, then the image is saved as Black & White.
You certainly can, but be aware that images containing color are much larger than images of just black & white. This is why the Auto-Color option has become a very popular choice for customers.
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. When scanning paper, the immediate result is an image (or picture) of the page. The text on the page is not actually held as “Text”, instead it appears to you and I as text, but it is actually a series of pixels (dots) that form the shape of text. Therefore, in the immediate scanned image, no text is actually present. Next, we run the image file through specialized software that examines the shapes that are formed by pixels, comparing the shapes to actual text characters and then finds the closest match, to create a representative text file. Most commonly, the representative text can then be searched to find specific words or phrases that might have existed on the hard copy paper.
The OCR result is only as good as the original hard copy image that it was scanned from. If the original was clean “machine printed” text, then the OCR result can be as accurate as 98% or 99% at the character level. However, if the text on the original was obstructed, or if the original page images was weak in contrast or poor in image quality, then the accuracy of the OCR will quickly diminish
Yes, the OCR result can be saved to .doc or .docx format, but understand that much of the formatting characteristics, such as tab indenting, numbered or bulleted lines will be lost or not carry the actual formatting characteristics. If you are seeking to have pages scanned to MSWord formats, be prepared to spend time editing the results, and cleaning up the OCR’d text to make the Word file fully usable.
In addition to the file naming and/or naming of folders; There are two other ways to search and find electronic documents. First involves associating metadata (aka index data) to the files created. By associating this metadata, some software tools will allow the user to search the metadata to find specific documents. As an example, you can associate a document type such as “Contract” to your electronic result, and also associate a date of expiration of that contract. Therefore, you could search for “Contacts” that expire between a certain date range. The second way to search is by applying OCR technology to create a text representation from the original, where that text can also be searched. So now, you could search for “Contacts” that expire between a certain date range, and that also contain a specific name or phrase, to further refine your search.
The cost of a scanning project can vary widely based on the size, format, and condition of the original documents as well as the type of services you require such as HIPAA, shredding, or OCR. However, we have made it easy with our Scan by the Box service to quickly estimate the cost based on the number of boxes you have. It will cost you $219/box (CAN $275) for a 15x12x10 box. A 15x12x10 box can contain up to 2500 sheets of paper. The price is for single- and double-sided documents. For high-volume scanning needs, ARC offers special and competitive prices. please simply fill out the form, call us at (833) 272-8880, or use our live chat.
We offer several types of document scanning services
We offer wide format and small format document scanning services. We can also scan other types of assets such as microfiche, and aperture cards. See a full list of the type of documents we can scan
We do our best to scan your documents as fast as possible, here is our typical turnaround time (business days):
1-5 boxes - 10 days 5-10 boxes - 15 days 11- 20 boxes - 20 days 21+ boxes - upon estimate
Our document scanning services will help you to have complete access to your paper documents in a digital format. We will assist you with quick search, document retention policies and go forward scanning of documents. We can also support you with document information in the cloud and easy access via mobile devices
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