Made out of people

People who actually use scanners

My advisor has told me about an photo-ethnographic study carried out at his former employer. Back then, they were the Document Company, and were absolutely sure that the world would soon be taken over by the Paperless Office. But in order to get the office paperless, everyone needed a scanner, so they could change paper into bits.

The study was of how people were using scanners. They found very few scanners in fully operable, and operating, condition. Instead, they found a lot of doorstops, paperweights, and convenient flat surfaces.

So it interests me to find a company that is again trying to revisit the dream. These people use scanners to dump documents into an archive, then use SQL to find them again.

they also have a flexible email sorting rules system, a full text index of files and of everything else... fairly SixDegrees or X1ish..