Things to know

Here are a few pieces of information to help you understand the process of turning your Harcopy documents to electronic format…

1 Filing cabinet (3 drawers) holds approximately 7500 pages.

1 Drawer of a filing cabinet is approximately 2500 pages.

1 Archive box = 1 Filing cabinet drawer.

1000 KBytes =~ 1 MegaByte;

1,000 MBytes =~ 1 GigaByte;

1,000 GBytes =~ 1 TeraByte

1 Archive box of scanned data is approximately 130 Megabytes if scanned in black & white

A PDF File is a file format designed to enable printing and viewing of documents with all their formatting (typefaces, images, layout, etc.) appearing the same regardless of what operating system is used. A PDF document should look the same on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, etc