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These are a few of my favorite posts (you can imagine Julie Andrews singing if you like) about capture and scanning… 8 Factors To Consider When Preparing To Implement A Data Capture System 8 Benefits of a Digital Mail Process 8 things to look for in a document management service provider 8 Reasons to Consider a Document Management Service Company as Part of Your Information Strategy 8 things to consider when selecting an application to scan or capture into SharePoint 8 things to consider in selecting the right scanner 8 things you need to know about automating document indexing 8 Key Things to Consider When it Comes to Getting Paper into SharePoint Check out our Capture Microsite.

Two main concerns for any document imaging exercise are the image quality and the file size. The objective: get the best possible image quality while keeping the file size to a minimum. Thus image enhancement has become an essential step in a well defined capture workflow. The purpose of image enhancement (image cleanup/image processing) is to make the images more readable, and also to remove unwanted noise reducing the storage requirements. This is especially important for forms processing/OCR applications in order to improve character recognition. One of my 8 things authors — Amila Hendahewa, AKA the DocuDude — has done a nice piece on the 8 Image enhancement techniques in document capture — it’s a useful primer — check it out. You can also follow him on Twitter HERE. Here’s his earlier post — 8 Things to Consider in Selecting the Right Scanner.

Whitney Tidmarsh is the chief marketing officer for the Content Management and Archiving Division of EMC Corporation. Whitney is active in AIIM and currently serves on the AIIM Board of Directors. She can be followed on Twitter at @whitneytidmarsh. For more information about EMC, visit: www.emc.com. These 8 ways to control your SharePoint infrastructure loosely fall into three buckets — 1) Improve infrastructure performance, 2) Assert governance and control over your SharePoint infrastructure, and 3) Get more out of your SharePoint investments. EMC and Microsoft share a longstanding partnership aimed at providing customers with solutions and tools to benefit business workers around the world. There’s no doubt that Microsoft SharePoint is big and here to stay as a platform for customized information sharing. A recent IDC study showed enterprise adoption or planned adoption of SharePoint at 70% — and that figure seems conservative. Users are widely embracing SharePoint for tying together disconnected islands of data, integrating technology with business processes, and targeting and personalizing information for groups and individual users. The explosion of these active and inactive teamsites poses information management challenges for IT and the business. At the highest level, we believe an effective information management strategy enables enterprises…