Scanning and Imaging Fast Facts
- An image is a single side of a piece of paper.
- A document is a set of pages contained in one file folder.
- One banker's box or record storage box (1.2 cu ft) holds between 2,500 and 3,000 pages.
- One transfile box (3.0 cu ft) holds between 4,000 and 5,000 pages.
- One lateral file drawer holds approximately 200 pages per inch.
- The average image size of a black and white page is 200 dpi or 50,000 bytes (50KB).
- The average image size of a color page is 300 dpi or 190,000 bytes (190KB).
- One gigabyte is 1 billion bytes.
- One terabyte is one trillion bytes or 1000 gigabytes.
- The average number of images per gigabyte is 20,000.
- Average number of boxes per gigabyte is 8 (1.2 cu ft).
- The capacity of a CD is around 13,400 images or 5.5 boxes.
- The capacity of a DVD is around 94,000 images or 37.5 boxes.
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