Microfilm Scanning and Economic Trends

During this recession period, many City, County, and State microfilm scanning and document conversion projects were either slowed down, disregarded, or postponed indefinitely. In many cases, there was a direct correlation between the housing industry and the assets used by these government agencies to pay for these projects. In some cases, fees applied to building permits generated cash that were used for funding microfilm conversion projects. No new housing construction also meant that the government offices lost the money that used to be generated from the fees charged for building and zoning permits. As a result, Government organizations have been reluctant to start or continue microfilm scanning projects unless the microfilm scanning project had an absolute priority.

An economic study on new housing and population growth points to a near future change that may improve development and affect microfilm scanning conversion. According to the data, 1.6 million new homes need to be build each year to keep up with population. It also showed that the inventory of housing was less than two years, and that it takes a minimum of 7 month to a year to build new housing once building starts.The article was release by msn on real estate economy last month.

Very few homes have been build resently while the population has continued to rise. New house construction needs to start to avoid a lack of housing in the near future. The review showed that a shortage of housing may be worse than our current issues. Realizing this information, it is apparent that new building may start real soon. Once a demand for housing sets in, the market should be motivated to increase construction.

An increase in building means an immediate increase of building permits for construction and zoning changes. The fees that will be generated from these new permits will allow government agencies to resume other projects. And once confident levels begin to increase, microfilm scanning and other document conversion projects should also begin to see life.

Microfilm scanning is needed to convert many of the files that now reside on microfilm. Microfilm and microfiche have been used for years to accumulate significant amounts of documents and microfilm scanning will help these systems. Microfilm scanning is the procedure to convert backfile microfilm to digital. Digital system are more efficient that traditional system. The cost savings from an electronic system allows an agency to become more profitable. Converting microfilm to digital format is achieved by means of microfilm scanning.
Microfilm scanning is done at Generation Imaging. At generation Imaging, we can take care of all your microfilm scanning needs.