The best software and hardware is expensive. The economies of the PC revolution yet to reduce prices to PC levels. However, you can get into this for a small expenditure, and then determine what you need. If you are willing to make compromises, you can do a lot for very little. But you will see a fast return on investment.
More involved images can take prodigious amount of storage.
With indexing, OCRing works because it will catch most instances of the word, even if it doesn't catch everything. C. Think about the benefits and potential difficulties about proprietary formats, because you get stuck in the proprietary programs that may not do what you want. Of the generic formats, the TIFF 4 image is the most compact and prevalent. A very good place to begin and a remarkable value in a segment otherwise dominated by programs that cost thousands. B. Acrobat 5.0 originally lacked the Capture OCR indexing feature, but presumably due to the loud hoots of an ungrade that lacked a basic feature of the previous version, the indexing feature s now available as a download , and actually works.