A typical page of scanned text is may be 250K-300K in size, though pages with greater graphics content can be up to 500K. 4. At the DRS, the user prints the document and accepts it. The electronic copy is deleted, for the purposes of copyright compliance. Full accounting records are kept by the system. The DRS can generate a letter or e-mail to notify the user of its arrival.
Administrators have full access to the supporting database via a web interface.
The improved order management and delivery system offers better scalability, and takes better advantage of the library catalogues location information, to accommodate shared and union catalogues. A POP3 Internet mail account is also required. Each module needs its own mailbox. Because of the file sizes involved in electronic document delivery, the receiving mailbox needs to have plenty of disk space available. Log files and the accounting system can require considerable disk space.