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How many workdays will it take to scan our paper archive?
Multiply simultaneous scanners by pages per minute, 60 and the scanning share. Divide pages by that hourly rate, then divide hours by the daily window and round up to working days. Assume pages can be split between devices.
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Worked example
With the example inputs below, the calculator returns these results.
Daily page capacity 4,800
- Archive pages
- 6,000 pages
- Scanners running together
- 2 devices
- Rated speed per scanner
- 20 pages/min
- Scheduled hours per day
- 2.5 h/day
- Share of time spent scanning
- 80 %
Other results
- Elapsed scheduled time
- 3.13 h
- Workdays touched
- 2
Use your own figures
Size a digitising run before reserving devices and desk space. Open the worksheet, replace the example values, then copy or print the result.
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