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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