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Thinking in documents.

Notes from the people who build and run SmartImage: technology, compliance, operations, and the occasional war story from the scanning room.

A bright, orderly document archive with steel filing cabinets, archive boxes and lever-arch files
Document scanning

How many pages are you actually sitting on?

Every scanning project starts with one number, and most people guess it wrong. Here is how to size the job from what you can already see: the files, the boxes and the cabinets, before a single lid is lifted.

By Johann Swanepoel · 2026-07-17 read the article →

Enough reading. See it run.

Fifteen minutes on our sample set, or bring your own worst documents and watch them become data.