Scanner Resellers & Reprographics Partners
Questions and Answers

Increase your wide-format equipment and scanning service sales when you include a scan to database, scan to document management or scan to archive solution. Solution selling is imperative to remain successful in today's competitive economy. It increases the value of you and your equipment and services while differentiating you from the competition. This not only increases sales, it also gives you the means to develop a loyal customer base with more opportunities for repeat business.

What should you be asking your customers?

What will they be using their scanner for? Scanning a document or drawing is the first step but what do they do want to do with the scanned file?

Your customers can take advantage of solutions that deliver document management, document and drawing distribution, archiving, editing scanned drawings, and more. You can reinforce the value of your scan to file hardware.

Indexing Scanned Files ( Overview of indexing)

1. Do they need to add search intelligence to scanned files which prepares for document management?

They can use echive Indexer Lite to create and populate property fields (categories of information such as author, project name, vendor, customer, etc.). Or, if they need vector file support, they can use echive Indexer Plus or for full text indexing (prepares files for full text searching), echive Indexer OCR.

2. Do they need more indexing options?

echive indexing products is a list of all of the Open Archive indexing software options.

Document and Drawing Management

1. Do they need a document and drawing management solution?

echive is a solution for organizing scanned documents & drawings and existing electronic files. Search, view, redine, print, edit, distribute and publish most popular file formats, including scanned documents and drawings.

2. Do they need an archive solution?

echive Organizer creates CD/DVD storage for archiving documents and drawings.

3. Do they need a drawing or document distribution solution?

echive Media Explorer is an easy way to deliver drawings and documents or even an entire database on CD/DVD. An included utility gives the user full search, view and print capability.

Editing Scanned Drawings (raster)

1. Do they need to make simple changes to scanned drawings?

echive RasterREnew provides quick and simple image enhancing and raster editing.

2. Do they need to make raster edits in an AutoCAD environment?

GTXRaster CAD is compatible with all current levels of AutoCAD.

3. Do they need to edit scanned drawings in other CAD environments?

GTXImage CAD includes the AutoCAD OEM engine with raster editing capability.

4. Do they need to convert raster to vector for more complex changes?

GTXRaster CAD PLUS provides raster editing and conversion to vector for use within an AutoCAD environment. Or GTXImage CAD PLUS contains vector conversion capability using the OEM AutoCAD engine.