RE: Re: OT Document archiving...continued

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxx>]

I've joined this thread a bit late but for what it's worth, my company
scans
upwards of 4 million financial docs (i.e. giros, cheques, c/card
applications etc etc) per day, and probably about 60% of the companies do
not retain the paper for more than 90 days.  Images are retained for at
least 7 years, and all of the archives have been audited independently to
show that they're not wide open to manipulation.  The legality, or
otherwise, of a scanned image has never been comprehensive proved in a UK
court of law, but the same principle applied when everyone was microfilming
images - never challenged, so never proved.  The fact is that many of this
countrys' most well known companies have now decided that the risk is worth
it, given the overhead of storing the paper for 7 years.

Obviously on a different scale to a home archive system though!

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: David Buckley [mailto:db@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 31 January 2004 01:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: OT Document archiving...continued


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Brian G. Reynolds"
<brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx; wrote:
> Do any of you "legal" types know what the "law" is
for
> scanning documents?







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