Broadly speaking, every document scanning project includes three stages:

1. Preparation: select documents to be scanned, remove staples and paper clips, sort the documents and arrange the papers into batches. This is labor-intensive work. According to estimates from Document Management magazine, the preparation stage accounts for 37% of the costs of a typical document scanning project.
2. Scanning: Inputting the documents, scanning and capturing the images, and making any adjustments or corrections to the images.
3. Post-scan processing: Quality assurance, indexing the metadata, creating optical character recognition, distributing the final images for storage and possibly reassembling the files. Post-scan processing is also labor-intensive, and typically accounts for 39% of the costs of document scanning.

So how can your organization reduce the cost of document scanning?

There are several key components in managing your costs:

Choose the right scanner. We’ve written before about choosing a scanner, but beyond the operational and technical details, choosing the right scanner has serious cost implications as well. Some cost-conscious managers might be reluctant to pay top dollar for a high quality scanner, but spending more money upfront can often save you money in the long run, due to higher efficiency, ease of use, and lower maintenance costs.

For example, every time a lower-cost scanner fails to capture an image, that results in added cost (labor, time, rescans, wasted effort). A single high quality, high speed scanner might be able to replace two or more slower, lower-quality scanners and reduce labor costs by removing the need for an extra scanner operator.

Some scanners are easier to maintain than others. If a scanner is hard to clean and maintain, with hard-to-reach parts and a hard-to-operate design, then chances are your employees will be less likely to give it the regular maintenance it needs, leading to a higher probability of downtime and expensive service calls.

Make sure you understand the meaning of “throughput.” Throughput is frequently used as a measure of scanner quality, since this statistic shows how much paper will pass through a scanner. However, don’t look only at the “raw transport speed,” but also consider how long it realistically takes to scan mixed batches of documents of different shapes and sizes. You can’t expect to get an accurate measure of throughput based only on ideal conditions when all the paper is the same size and consistency.   Also, when calculating throughput, be sure to recognize that the scanner will not be running 24/7: allow for work breaks, work discussions and maintenance time.  Speed is not the only important measure of success. After all, many cars’ speedometers show 160 miles per hour, but what do you really achieve in traffic?

Ultimately, document scanning will hopefully be a positive investment for your organization, as there are many costs associated with working with paper files and archives that can be eliminated by switching to digital files. But as you prepare to embark on a large-scale document scanning project, keep in mind that the true drivers of cost can be best managed with the right people, the right processes, and a smart understanding of the trade-offs between quality and speed.

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Document scanning can help improve…

• Response time: With digitally scanned documentation, it’s easier to find relevant information to answer questions from customers or respond to inquiries from auditors and regulatory compliance officials. If you have a digital database of well-organized digital documents that can be searched by keyword (using Optical Character Recognition), you never have to worry about sending the wrong version of a contract, sending an archived invoice to the wrong customer, or failing to find a time-sensitive record.
• Daily office efficiency: Reduce the time spent searching for the right paper document. As one of our clients recently remarked, “Finding a document can take anywhere from 5 minutes to never.” Many digital files can be searched by keyword, making it easier to quickly access the information you need. It’s also easier and faster for employees to share digital files with each other (by e-mail or by sharing with online collaboration tools) than to copy and distribute paper documents.
• Legal matters: Keeping signed copies of contracts and other legal documents in digital format can help protect your company’s interests. Even if you prefer to keep (or are legally required to keep) the original signed versions on file, converting the files to digital format will give you backup copies that can be retrieved in case of fire, flood, misplacement or malicious loss.
• Disaster preparedness: Paper documents stored in a single physical location, whether it’s a locked office file cabinet or secure warehouse archive, are vulnerable to disasters like fire, flood or other natural disasters. Another concern that is often overlooked is the possibility of malicious destruction of documents caused by disgruntled employees. Converting paper documents to digital provides an added level of protection for the business-critical information stored in your paper files.
• Ease of storage: File cabinets take up valuable office space, and warehouses cost money. Document scanning puts a company’s files in a convenient, easy to transport format that can be stored in multiple ways. The equivalent of 10,000 sheets of paper can be stored on a single CD. Digital images can be stored onsite, offsite and online using cloud-based data storage services.
• Information Security: For sensitive documents that require restricted access, converting the documents to digital format can give you the security advantages of password-protected access, encrypted content, and audit trails showing which people have accessed the documents, and when. None of these features are easy to replicate with paper documents. If a sensitive paper document falls into the wrong hands, it can easily be photocopied and distributed without anyone knowing. Document scanning provides an added layer of security for your organization’s most sensitive secrets.

Document scanning is not just a matter of reducing the amount of office space devoted to file cabinets or preventing paper cuts – it affects almost every mission-critical area of your business, from customer service to sales to regulatory compliance. No matter what industry or what size of organization you’re in, chances are your business can benefit from converting more of your documents to digital format.

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Here are a few key components to consider when evaluating the efficiency of your document scanning operation:

Make it measurable: Just like the old carpenter’s saying, “measure twice, cut once,” in document scanning, measurement is just as important as execution. Document scanning is more efficient when it is a fully measurable, quantifiable process. You need to be able to measure every part of your scanning process by creating standards and evaluating performance against those standards. The two most important standards for document scanning work are Speed and Accuracy. Speed can be measured by the number of pages prepared, scanned, processed, and inspected per hour (or per day), and Accuracy is a measure of the fewest missed pages or fewest scanning errors as a percentage of total pages scanned. If your company uses a standard system of performance management, look for ways to incorporate specific measures and goals for document scanning into the overall business process.

Look for outliers: Once you know your metrics for your document scanning process, you need to look for ways to identify the “outliers” on your team – the top performers as well as the people who are struggling to meet the standards. If you have some people on your document conversion team who are achieving much better results than everyone else, take some time to watch them work, and find out the secret to their success. Also ask your best performers:

• Are there certain processes or shortcuts that they use which could be taught to others on the team? If so, use your best document scanning staff to train the rest of the team on how to improve their skills.
• Are there certain types of documents that are particularly challenging to handle, manage and scan? Look for ways to “divide and conquer” these more complex document scanning projects.

Pay attention to quality: Quality assurance is clearly an integral part of document scanning. Keep in mind that speed is not the only important metric – it obviously doesn’t matter how fast someone is at scanning, if they make errors on every page. Each company needs to determine the right level of quality assurance that makes sense for their expectations.

Ask yourself:

• How accurate does your scanning operation need to be? Is 100% accuracy really achievable?
• What would the impact be if you lost a page of documentation as part of the scanning process?
• If you have highly confidential documents that might be needed for litigation, consider creating special processes to handle these high-value documents with an extra level of care.

Every document conversion project offers its own unique challenges and nuances. But regardless of the type of documents or volume of work, a successful document scanning project needs to involve setting measurable goals, maintaining acceptable standards of speed and accuracy, and striving for continuous improvement.

The biggest determining factors in an efficient document conversion project are not only the technology being utilized, but the people assigned and the processes created to carry out the work.

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As the market for document imaging services continues to grow, companies are seeking a higher level of sophistication from their document scanning vendors.

Several key trends are emerging, as document imaging takes on a larger role in process improvement, data extraction, and information security.

Document scanning is not a stand-alone project; it’s part of a larger picture.

More companies are approaching their document scanning and conversion projects from a broader perspective of process improvement and business efficiency. Document scanning is being used not only to convert static files to digital format, but to improve the ongoing operations of the organization by capturing crucial data earlier in the process, digitizing documents, and automating workflows.

It’s not just about who can deliver the highest volume of digital conversion at the lowest cost; choosing a scanning vendor also involves considerations of efficiency, advisory services and specialized expertise. Clients are seeking scanning services that provide the best overall fit for the unique needs of each project.

One of the key requirements for any document scanning project is the proper handling of metadata.

Metadata matters more than ever.

As documents are collected and scanned into digital format, companies are seeking more efficient methods to gather the “metadata” – the reference information and identifying data that corresponds to each document or category of documents. Every document scanning project needs to include a detailed plan for processing, recording and sorting metadata so that the company can easily reuse and share the information.

Whenever possible, data capture should be automated to save time and money. More companies are relying on automated tools for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for digital fonts, and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) for handwritten documents like surveys and response cards. It is becoming faster and easier than ever before for companies to quickly extract key metadata from scanned documents, such as case numbers, invoice information, or customer identification numbers, and to sort, search and identify key documents once they have been converted to digital format.

The most popular format for saving scanned documents is Adobe Acrobat PDF, as this format enables users to search for specific metadata, key words and phrases within the scanned documents.

Just as the newest techniques in document scanning make it easier to sort and search by metadata, they also present certain risks that need to be managed. Information security needs to be top of mind for any document scanning project.

Information security is a growing concern.

Companies want to avoid getting into the news for the wrong reasons by inadvertently creating a data breach or allowing their customers’ confidential information to be exposed. Whether the sensitive information involves medical records, financial statements, credit card information, Social Security Numbers, or any other confidential or high-risk personal data, every document scanning project needs to include safeguards and clear processes for information security.

Top Information security concerns include:

• Categories of information: One of the primary steps to ensure information security is to identify different categories of information and treat these categories differently – with minimal information security procedures for low-risk information, and more restrictive measures for highly confidential information.
• Chain of custody: As part of the document scanning project, the company managing the process needs to ensure that there is a clear chain of custody for all information, but particularly any confidential or sensitive information. Whether the information is shipped off-site to be scanned at a remote location, or if the information is being scanned at the company’s own location, there needs to be a clear process in place to decide who has access to the different types of information.
• Safe disposal of paper documents: Once the paper documents have been scanned and converted to digital files, the company needs to maintain a safe process for disposing of the original paper versions. Carelessly discarded paper documents can all too easily fall into the wrong hands, leading to bad publicity, loss of the company’s reputation, regulatory fines or lawsuits.

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Now let’s consider the “who” and the “how” – three more key questions that every business decision maker needs to ask before purchasing a new scanner.

1. Who will be using the scanner? How technically savvy and well-trained are the people who will be using this scanner? Do you have good processes in place to make sure that critical documents are scanned correctly? Before your scanned paper documents are shredded or destroyed, you need to have good quality control and information security procedures in place to make sure that the final electronic versions are correctly scanned, accurately labeled and securely stored in their new format.Whether it’s full-time in-house staff or temporary help from an outsourced scanning service, keep in mind that processes and people matter even more than the “right” scanner. You need to manage the project appropriately to ensure that all of your documents are handled with care and scanned correctly.
2. How much volume of document scanning will we be doing with this scanner? Is this scanner going to be used for occasional “everyday” scanning or do you expect to have high volumes of documents that need to be converted to digital format?If you expect to have a high volume of scanning, you might want to buy a scanner with an automatic document feeder. A document feeder makes it easier to quickly scan multiple copies of documents, without as much hands-on work. Just like feeding paper into a copy machine, a document feeder is a great tool to use on your scanner to quickly convert many documents to digital.Sometimes with greater speed comes a greater chance for errors – so whether or not you use a document feeder with your scanner, make sure to check images of the scanned documents closely to ensure that everything scanned correctly. Quality control needs to be part of every scanning project. Whether you’re scanning 10 pages or 10,000 pages, you need to have attention to detail to make sure that all of the relevant information gets captured and scanned into electronic form.

   For the truly high-volume scanning projects – hundreds of thousands of pages or more – you will probably want to consider hiring an outsourced scanning service. These companies can deliver a highly focused, time-tested process for doing digital conversions of massive quantities of documents – and for the biggest scanning jobs, it’s often best to hire specialists rather than trying to do all the work in-house.

3. Do you need help choosing a scanner? If you feel overwhelmed by the multitude of choices on the market, or if you want some professional assistance in finding the right scanner that is best-suited to your business needs, consider hiring a consultant or a scanning service to serve as a consultant. If you’re going to invest a few thousand dollars in purchasing a new scanner, you might consider investing some money in getting an expert recommendation on the right scanner for your business’s particular needs and volume of work.A scanning service can help you decide how much volume of scanning you can expect, what level of image resolution is right for you, what kind of OCR or other features to include, and how to integrate the new scanner into your business operations and document management workflows.Choosing the right scanner can make a significant difference in improving your business’s productivity and work processes. By having a good sense of your business needs, by understanding some of the key features that you want in a scanner, and by knowing what to look for, you will be more likely to avoid confusion and avoid buying “more scanner than you need.”

    

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If your company is thinking about doing scanning, you need to give some thought to what kind of scanner to buy. Choosing the right scanner can make a big difference – you can potentially save hundreds or thousands of dollars and avoid a significant amount of frustration.

There are several questions you need to ask yourself before your company invests in new scanning equipment:

1. What are the business needs for this new scanner?Before investing in a piece of scanning equipment, make sure that you know the business case for why you need to buy it. For example:
   • How much paper do you need to scan? Do you want to convert a small volume of paper documents to digital files to better align with the rest of your workplace, or are you interested in a more elaborate “paperless office” initiative to aggressively get rid of paper and work exclusively with electronic files? Do you have a high volume of paper archives that need to be converted to digital format, or do you want a scanner for “everyday use?”
   • Who will operate the scanner? Do you have full-time in-house staff that will be using the scanner as part of their regular duties, or do you need to hire temporary help that will be dedicated solely to scanning? Do you have existing work processes and security protocols in place to make sure that your organization’s sensitive/confidential information is handled appropriately?

Whatever the answers are, make sure you have a clear idea of “why” you want the scanner before you start shopping. The new scanner should align with the business needs that it is meant to fulfill. If you are scanning a large volume of documents, you might be better off hiring an outsourced scanning service rather than trying to do the work in-house.

2. What kind of documents will we be scanning?

Do you need to scan in color, or only in black & white? Color scanning often takes longer and results in larger digital file sizes – so it’s often more efficient to scan solely in black & white if you can get away with it.)

What kind of condition are the paper documents in? Are you going to be scanning only freshly printed material, or older archived documents that might be damaged or fragile? Will you be scanning single documents only, or multiple pages with staples?

A simple but often overlooked question: what size of documents do you need to scan? Consider buying a scanner with a larger scanning area if you want to be able to easily scan larger documents, books, maps, drawings, or other irregularly shaped items that don’t fit into the standard size of a regular sheet of paper.

3. What level of image quality do we require in our scanned documents? One point of difference in the price of scanners is related to the level of image quality. While most scanners have high-resolution capability, image quality is dependent upon many factors.  Understandably, more expensive scanners have better optics, hardware and software.Another issue related to image quality is Optical Character Recognition (OCR). If you want your scanner to be able to easily convert paper documents to digital text that can easily be searched in electronic format, you need to choose a good OCR software package. This can add some costs to the upfront purchase price of the scanner, but it makes a difference in the efficiency of your scanning process going forward.In general, most businesses will be well-served by a scanner with a black & white bitonal range of 200-300 dpi. 300 dpi is primarily for OCR.  Scanning for the web can be at much lower resolution (72 or 96 dpi.) Most businesses do not need the very highest levels of resolution. There is no advantage to getting a very high resolution scanner, unless you’re going to be working with high-res photos or have some other highly specialized requirements.

For more information on choosing the right scanner for your business, read part 2 of this article.

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Here are four big questions that every client needs to ask themselves prior to starting a document conversion project with an outsourced scanning service:

1. Are you willing to hire temporary employees?

At microMEDIA, we often help our clients hire temporary employees to work on-site and help conduct the document conversion. Many companies are reluctant to entrust their document conversion work to temporary workers – but this is a mistake! Temporary employees get kind of a bum rap in this area. Temps can do just as good of a job as regular staff – it’s the process and the project management that matter most, not whether the work is done by regular or temporary staff.

The key to a successful document conversion project is project design and project management. If your leadership team does a good job of laying out the specifications and creating a steady and efficient work process (with the right level of controls and quality assurance built in), it won’t matter whether your regular staff or temporary personnel are doing the day-to-day work of scanning your documents.

2. Do you want to do the scanning on-site or off-site?

In general, document conversions can be done in two ways: by sending the documents to an off-site scanning service, or keeping your documents on-site and having the scanning service come to you.

Companies are often tempted to just send all their documents away to be scanned – and this can be a good solution for smaller projects – but for larger document conversions it may be not much more costly to keep the documents on-site and bring in equipment and personnel to do the scanning at your own location.

Benefits of on-site scanning include:

• Information security: Keeping your documents on company premises reduces the risk that any sensitive information will be lost or misplaced during shipping.
• Packing and shipping costs: While offsite conversions are generally less costly, the expense of shipping documents (and perhaps having them shipped back) should be considered.
• Efficient labor costs: Instead of taking your in-house staff away from their regular job duties, a scanning service can hire and manage temporary employees to work on-site and be exclusively dedicated to your scanning project.

The biggest determining factor in the cost of a scanning project is not the location, it’s the process. Managers need to know the most efficient way to approach the document conversion project to ensure that the work gets done the right way – and a good scanning service can consult with your company to help you design a process for your specific document conversion needs.

3. Are you aware of the “hidden costs” of a document conversion project?

Many companies decide to work with outsourced scanning vendors to handle their document conversion projects because they want to get the work done efficiently and save money. While it’s true that outsourced document scanning is often more cost-effective than doing all of the work in-house, keep in mind that there are still some costs of outsourced document conversions that may not be obvious.

Most costs will be reflected in the vendor’s costs that are billed to you – equipment usage, temporary employee labor costs, consulting fees, set-up fees, and any data indexing and final delivery costs.

But in addition to these costs, there are internal costs (time and labor) that your organization will need to keep in mind – just because you’re hiring a document scanning vendor doesn’t mean that you can just “hand over” the project and have it off your plate. Every document conversion project needs to be monitored by an in-house project manager and deliveries should be inspected and validated as with any outside purchase. It may not equate to full-time jobs, but someone at your organization needs to be assigned to fill these roles on the document conversion project.

4. Who is in charge of the project?

For every document conversion project, the client needs to appoint someone in-house to be involved with the project from start-to-finish and be accountable for the project’s results. Every document conversion project’s success depends on the client’s in-house project manager. A good scanning service can help design a work process and provide quality assurance, but it’s ultimately the responsibility of the client’s in-house project manager to sign off on the work.

Many companies don’t realize this when they first decide to do a document conversion project, but it’s important: you need to have a dedicated resource within your company who can manage the project and supervise quality control. If you’re scanning 100,000 documents, you need staff to review the scanned images and ensure that they meet your specifications.

Outsourced scanning services can be a great help, but the final responsibility for the success of the project lies with your in-house project manager and his/her team. Even if you need to re-assign some people or re-shuffle some job responsibilities, the biggest responsibility of the client is to make sure that you have the right people in place to make your document conversion a success.

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It’s true that barcodes can be used when scanning documents in order to create an accurate index to find the scanned images’ accompanying data. At microMEDIA, we almost always use barcodes as part of our scanning process for clients. However, while barcodes can be useful, they are not an absolute requirement.

Documents can sometimes be manually grouped and indexed more efficiently than can be done by creating barcodes. Here are some examples of document conversion projects that do not require barcodes:

• Dealing with separate documents: For example, if you’re scanning documents that only consist of one page or engineering drawings, and each page or drawing is a separate document, that means that we’ll need to collect and index the information from each of these drawings – its number, date, how to identify it, naming information, etc. If we were scanning 1,000 of these separate documents, and if we were going to insert barcodes for each of these 1,000 separate documents, using barcodes we’re doubling the amount of scanning that needs to be done – so we wouldn’t recommend using barcodes for this particular project.
• Slides and microfilm: These media are not a good fit to use barcodes when scanning – there is no way to insert a barcode into a reel of film or onto a slide.
• Monthly documents: If documents can be easily arranged by month – for example, invoices and purchase orders, there is no need to group them by using barcodes. If you have a batch of invoices, you can feed them into the scanner a month at a time, with no need to use barcodes.

When do barcodes make sense to use in document scanning?

Barcodes are most efficient when they can be used to group and identify larger amounts of documentation. For example, if a single barcode can be used to identify a multi-page document, then it makes sense to use barcodes for that part of the scanning project.

Another type of scanning that often is a good fit for barcodes is dealing with documents that are maintained in a database, such as employee files. If a company has an electronic listing of employees, vendors, customers, products, etc. (and the related information), a scanning service can generate barcodes automatically from that list of data so that there is no manual data entry required.

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Questions to ask before starting a document conversion project

Every document conversion project is its own unique creation. There are so many variables that go into determining the right approach and process.

Before hiring a document scanning service, clients need to consider the following questions:

• Where will the scanning be done – on location or off-site? Depending on the volume of work and the particular details of your project, it might be more cost-effective and efficient to do the scanning on-site at your own location.
• Are the images in color or black & white? Color scanning adds complexity and cost – how important is it that the documents be scanned in color? And if they must be scanned in color, what level of fidelity do the colors need to have – do the scanned images need to match the original colors, or is it acceptable for the colors not to perfectly match?
• Do the back sides of any documents need to be scanned, or will we be scanning one-sided documents only? One-sided scanning is faster and cheaper – but if the information on the back sides of the original documents is critical and needs to be saved, then it needs to be included as part of the document conversion project.
• Do you want Optical Character Recognition (OCR) included to provide for easier searching of the scanned data? Not every scanning project includes OCR – this is an added level of complexity and cost. It can be done, but you need to decide how important OCR is, and how much you’re willing to pay to get it.
• What condition are the documents in? Are they fragile or damaged in any way? Do the documents need to have staples removed? The more fragile or complex the condition of the documents, the more complex and costly the document conversion project can be.

All of these variables can contribute to making a document conversion project lengthier or more complex and costly. There is no single “right way” to do one of these projects. Every company has unique needs and their documents might be arranged in a multitude of ways, requiring special handling and attention to detail. This means that every document conversion project has to be customized.

At microMEDIA, we certainly don’t expect our clients to be experts in all the details of document conversion projects – that’s our job, and we’re happy to help people learn the ins-and-outs of scanning their documents and converting them to digital format.

But before your organization gets started on hiring a scanning service for a document conversion project, give some thought to the questions on this list. The more you know prior to starting a document conversion project, the more you’ll be able to stay actively involved with the process and help ensure the project’s success.

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These two components are linked together so that clients can search through the database to find the appropriate image based on the dates, project names, and other data categories, and also quickly search and review the scanned digital images from the microfilms.

Searchable Database: As part of every aperture card conversion, we create a comma delimited spreadsheet containing the relevant data categories for each scanned microfilm image.

This means that if there are five types of data categories for a client’s aperture cards, such as “Project,” “Product,” “Revision Number,” “Date” and “Technology Type,” we will create a spreadsheet corresponding to each of those five data fields, which enables the client to sort their digitally scanned images by each of these categories.

If the client wants to see all the images from a certain Project, they can sort the spreadsheet and find where those images are located. Or if they want to find all the images from a certain date, they can search for a specific date or sort in chronological order (or reverse chronological order).

The process of creating a database can be complex, in large part due to the variety of categories and naming conventions that are used over the years to identify microfilm images. Creating a good database sometimes takes a bit of “detective work.”

Encrypted digital files: The other “deliverable” for every aperture card conversion project is a complete file of the digitally scanned images from the microfilms. We outline all the scanned images into some type of digital format – most often JPG, PDF, or a client-specific format to correspond with the client’s imaging system. For clients who do not have their own in-house imaging system, we give them PDF files.

We are usually dealing with a significant volume of data – so all digital files are recorded onto DVD or an external hard drive, and we also upload the images to the client via FTP. All the information from the aperture cards is considered to be the client’s intellectual property, so we make sure that all the data is encrypted and password protected.

For example, we recently completed an aperture card conversion project for a manufacturing company that had purchased another company – and as part of the merger, the new owners needed to incorporate all the archived aperture cards from their newly acquired company into the larger company’s digital imaging system. Even though the aperture cards were old, they still contained proprietary drawings and intellectual property that needed to be kept secure.

As you can see, every aperture card scanning project involves much more than just “scanning.” You can expect a thorough quality control process, a diligent review of categories and metadata, and a final delivery of a searchable database enabling you to sort and find the images you need. Aperture card scanning will get thousands of old images out of the archives and at your fingertips.

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