Rethink Your Scanning Services

"I think that we will get hard copy from professors in big piles, and they will want them scanned to a folder or desktop somewhere," he says, "or they may want everything on a CD."

Barron is reacting to the university's recent purchase of Blackboard, a Web-based interface software system that allows professors and students to upload and download files between one another. If a professor has a large number of documents available only on hard copy, Blackboard is useless—unless that professor can convert them into electronic documents. That's where Barron sees his opportunity.