An easier way to document 369,800 bank notes

Photocopying can be an irksome task when it involves running off reams and reams of paper that may well not be looked at by anyone else.

So spare a thought for the person who faces the laborious task of photocopying 369,800 Indian Rupee bank notes this month (February 2010) as part of a court case in India involving a disputed sum of money.

According to The Times of India, the photocopiers will be working overtime at Rajkot’s magisterial court in Ahmedabad, the largest city in the state of Gujarat.

Assuming one sheet of A4 is used for each bank note, an equivalent of 44 trees will be used up, as 8,333 sheets are typically sourced from one tree.

At Canotec, naturally, we’d recommend the court deploy our digital solutions, saving all that paper and the associated costs of ink, toner and cartridges.

We use licensed software that harnesses digital scanning power to capture and convert paper-based documents into electronic files for seamless digital capture, distribution and retrieval.