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Bulk Document Scanning

Easily digitise your documents with ARC’s scan-by-the-box bulk document scanning service. For a fixed rate per box, it’s simple to transform your office and go paperless. Managing your scanning budget is also made easy by our cost per box solution – simply load all your documents into as many storage boxes as you need and entrust ARC’s scanning specialists to digitise all your large format, colour and black & white business documents. By digitising your paper documents, you’ll create a paperless work environment with fingertip document access and dramatically improved levels of efficiency and compliance. 

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How bulk document scanning (scan-by-box) works

Scan-by-the-box is a low risk, no commitment way to digitise your paper documents. Our locations in London, Dartford and Bridgewater ensure a fast, efficient turnaround for customers across the UK. Here’s what’s included in the £129.00 per box (15” x 12” x 10”): 

  • Storage box from ARC UK.
  • Scan to PDF at 200 dpi.
  • 3 fields of indexing.
  • ARC link to download data.
  • Uplift & delivery withing 20 miles of an ARC UK location.
  • Upload to customers own portal (upon estimate).

Security and compliance

Going paperless is about more than just digitising documents – you need to take security into consideration. We keep your documents safe and protected throughout the process.  

  • Chain of custodyWe keep track of your documents using barcodes. The chain of custody for your documents to be scanned is tightly maintained throughout the scanning and handling process.
  • EncryptionScanned documents are encrypted to ensure confidentiality and integrity of data.
  • Physical & onsite security – Your scanned documents are safe with us. Our documents for bulk scanning are kept safe thanks to the provision of tamper-evident tape, locked storage and 24-hour surveillance cameras.
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Turnaround Time

  • 1-5 boxes – 10 business days
  • 5-10 boxes – 15 business days
  • 11- 20 boxes – 20 business days
  • 21+ – upon estimate

Additional Service (rates are per box)

  • Additional indexing per field – 0.05p
  • Searchable OCR – £0.01 per page
  • Shredding – £3.50 Per Box
  • Content Preparation – £25 Per Box*
  • Data on USB drive – £25.00
  • Upload to customer specified portal – Upon estimate
  • Custom batch uploads – Upon estimate

All prices are subject to the addition of VAT at the standard rate

You have the option to pre-prepare the content of your boxes for scanning; ensuring there are no impediments to your documents being applied directly to our document feeders for image capture. Please contact our scanning team for any further information or clarifications | 0203 985 0160.

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