About Line Scan
Line Scan was established in 1978 and continues to be a successful business that provides a total document storage and management solution.
We provide a professional service ensuring all documents are checked as readable before returning the completed project back to the customer. Line Scan has the technology to make your data storage secure and easy to access.
Line Scan has added business process solutions to the portfolio offering to help improve process-delivery which will enhance business relationships and customer management, providing efficiency gains with real-time reporting, leading to greater business control.
Why use us?
Space
Despite being in the digital age, most businesses continue to produce vast amounts of documents which take up valuable office and warehouse space. This space could be used for other aspects of your business if converted onto discs or placed on our secure server. Documents that are converted to digital format may be transferred to Disk / Hard Drive.
Risk
Storage of documents also poses a potential fire and security risk, often being stored in basements and loft spaces which are vulnerable during the event of a fire, flood or other disaster. Companies can take years to recover or fold altogether when years of data are lost.
As scanned data is stored away from your premises in a remote and safe location, Line Scan can deliver all your data history back to you in a matter of hours to ensure your business continues to run.
The Process
Once a clients records are delivered to the Line Scan offices, they can convert documents and drawings in to high quality digital files, using the latest Kodak scanning technology.
Once scanned the files are then indexed using the highly acclaimed Alchemy data management system. This ensures that the clients have an easily accessible data base of their records either on their preferred format such as DVD, CD or Hard Drive.
Once digitally converted and stored on our secure server, Line Scan can either continue to store (free of charge for 30 days) your original documents until you are satisfied that you are familiar with the system, or they can then go for secure destruction.
What types of documentation can Line Scan handle?
All types of document are handled from hand written notes and typewritten records to catalogues, working drawings, ID’s, x-rays and maps. Film and digital archiving is undertaken including microfiche, aperture cards, microfilm and removable media such as CD or DVD.
Depending on the type of master material you have (paper documents, 16/35mm microfilm, aperture cards, x-rays, criminal records etc.) Line Scan has cutting edge technology and professional technical operators that scan and index the content effectively and quickly making the process cost effective.
Would other departments be able to access these files?
Once your files have been digitised our efficient document management system allows documents / records to be stored where they can be easily accessed by all the departments as required.
They can be shared by more than one department and distributed throughout an organisation which could span different geographic locations.
Line Scan are a division of Universal Engineering (Charlestown) Ltd who are in turn a part of The Bland Group.
Universal Engineering
Universal Engineering’s 53 year long history has seen the firm expand its market penetration and develop its diversity into new markets.
Originally formed in 1957, the core business remains precision engineering. However, the complex asymmetric environment of the 21st Century and the changed economic circumstances bring new challenges into the defence and manufacturing sectors which have traditionally underpinned Universal’s outputs.
Acquired by the Bland Group of Companies in late 2009, they design and manufacture components and assemblies into safety critical environments such as civil and military aviation, armoured land vehicles, sub-sea oil, gas and the nuclear industry.
These items may range from complex and fragile miniature assemblies through to robust submersible units designed to survive and operate on the seabed for up to 25 years.
The Company has expanded its capabilities in all areas and has now developed its range of services from manufacturing individual components through to supplying complete assemblies and complex vehicle systems. They have invested in the very latest manufacturing technology in order to ensure competitiveness and capability.
Universal Engineering has enjoyed sustained growth which has enabled the expansion of employment opportunities at its facilities in South Dorset. Universal pride themselves on their flexibility, responsiveness and agility to operate in niche markets.
Visit website: www.universal-eng.com
Bland Group
As a highly diversified group of individual companies, the Bland Group represents a unique corporate entity. This group has a pedigree which stretches back 200 years and has current companies involved with innovation at the forefront of technology.
Bound together by a passion for providing the best possible products and services to our customers, all our companies strive to achieve excellence not just in their performance but also in the way in which they conduct their operations. Whether we are manufacturing hovercraft or vehicles, fabricating precision engineering, moving people or organising holidays, we want to look after our customers, employees and colleagues to the best of our ability.
Now we have reached our 200th anniversary, our Group continues to grow