Software and hardware combinations are also available from companies such as IPT and Seaport Imaging to pre-process images for OCR to remove backgrounds, deskew and sharpen the text. As stated before, image enabling requires a network to be installed. Users need to consider total bandwidth being used on any network before adding images, as it may be necessary to set up multiple networks. For large volume installations you are probably better off using token-ring. Optical Disks, Juke-Boxes and Archival Storage.
Optical disks are the most common medium for long term storage of document images.
Unfortunately the drives can usually only read one side, so on-line storage is around 6,000 pages. To solve this issue in a networked system, juke-boxes were invented. If the other side is required - it retrieves it, turns it over and puts it back in. Juke boxes can hold from around 10 platters to many hundreds and they can consist of one or multiple drives. You won't normally see these sold under the above names as these manufacturers mostly sell into the OEM market.