Specification Sheet

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Market Forecast
Demand for document scanners is
showing a growing trend centring on
workgroups. Higher sales can be
expected in this area as a future
growth market, when backed by new
product development and sales
promotion activities.
Why the Industry
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Source: 2009 InfoTrend
Text-Based Information in the Market
Electronic Data
Creating electronic data files from paper documents
(such as bills and statements)
Scanned paper documents and faxes
Documents that are important for business consideration
Documents that have been output from PCs
Articles from newspapers
Articles from magazines
Documents from meetings and other literature and
similar kinds of paper-based information
This refers to the
lifecycle management of
all content, from the time
it is generated until it is
disposed of.
Centralised management by converting information
into electronic data.
Audio data Motion image data Internet data ...
Using content from this kind of text-based information can be complicated if
it is not similarly managed and archived.
A large amount of office work time is spent searching for information.
ECM (Enterprise Content Management) of Businesses
The Lifecycle Management of Text-Based Information
Input Manage Output
Text-Based Information
Electronic data
Video data
Recorded data,
Electronic Data Conversion with
Business Scanners Is Essential
Production
Store
Disposal
Development
(Obtaining)
Save
Process
In order to accurately manage
the lifecycle of each type of
content among the vast amount
of text-based information of
each business, and to provide
management that allows easy
access when necessary...
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Mid-volume
Low-volume
Departmental
Workgroup
Unit:K
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
Unit Shipments (U.S.A.)
2.9k
23.6k
62.2k
420.8k
2.8k
20.5k
59.9k
423.3k
2.6k
18.1k
60.8k
436.8k
2.4k
16.9k
62.3k
460.4k
2.4k
15.6k
64.4k
490.4k
2.4k
14.4k
67.1k
523.0k
Source: FutureSource
2006 2007 2008 2009
Mid-volume
Low-volume
Departmental
Workgroup
Unit:K
0
100
200
300
400
Unit Shipments (Europe)
1.0k
4.9k
16.6k
181.8k
1.3k
7.1k
19.4k
267.7k
1.8k
10.8k
48.0k
275.1k
3.7k
10.5k
79.4k
221.8k
Panasonic Advantages DOCUMENT SCANNER