DocImaging

Murray Relf, General Manager Valley Industries

You have to move with the times, that’s the thinking from Murray Relf, General Manager of Valley Industries, a community service organization who employ over 150 people in the Manning Valley and Great Lakes areas.

“Valley Industries is a supported employment service, providing work opportunities to people with disabilities. We are constantly on the look out for work that is suitable for our employees and sometimes you just have to think out of the square and look for new and different opportunities. This is what we will be doing with our new and improved range of services, primarily aimed at the business community. These services, which our primarily focused around solving the problems businesses can face with document archiving. We are now able to offer a document scanning service which will be most useful for anyone facing document storage difficulties.” said Relf.

Having been at Valley Industries for nearly 13 years, and General Manager for 4 of those, he’s seen the changes in the employment of disability people. Valley Industries operate a number of different business activities ranging from timber products, such as pallets, pegs and stakes as well as special order shipping crates, a retail and wholesale nursery, grounds care and product packaging and document shredding. As markets and demand changes, they are also continually looking to diversify and hence the decision to expand their packaging and document shredding operations to include an expanded range of Business and Office Services.

“Our market research identified there is a clear need in the Manning and Great Lakes area for a document scanning service. We have found that with over 150 employees we generate a large amount of paperwork, so the scanning of our documents is saving us time and money. As we have found this service quite cost effective, we will now also offer it to the general business community.”

Apart from the new scanning service, Valley Industries is also taking the hassle out of your archive and document collation and storage. Garry Stephen, Manager of Valley Industries Business & Office Services can put together a package that is customized for your business. “We aim to make your document retrieval, storage and destruction easy, by scanning your documents onto a DVD and if required, shredding the hard copy. This will greatly reduce storage costs. If it is necessary to also retain hard copies of documents, we now offer secure archive storage at our site at
70 Whitbread Street, Taree. The retrieval of documents from a disc is where your business can save time and money as it eliminates the possible need to retain hard copies. Accessing documents from disc is a much quicker option.

For information on Document Scanning, or any other need for your business to save the time and expense on routine office jobs, contact Garry Stephen on 65528828

What is Document Imaging?



Document Imaging is the process of converting paper documents into 

bitmaps (digital images) through a scanning process. The scanning 

process works very similarly to creating a fax whereby the paper 

document is digitally transformed through a fax machine and sent across 

telecommunication lines to its final destination. Instead of a fax machine, 

a scanner is the equipment which makes the digital transformation and 

the final destination is CDROM, DVD, FLASH DRIVE or HARD DRIVE 

instead of paper.



Storage of the digital images is on CD ROM , DVD, Flash Drive. 

Valley Industries Business Services creates digital images in 

essentially a generic format capable of migrating into virtually any 

imaging system regardless of the software being used.

Because the images are digital, they can be stored on virtually any 

media type including hard drives and CD-ROM, DVD or Flash Drives 

Additionally, they can be distributed using the Internet. 



Valley Industry Business Services scans and converts documents in 

any size, shape or format, including:



Full Color Images

Gray-Scale Images

Black-and-White Images

Word Processing Files

Spreadsheet Files

Database Files

Graphics Files

Engineering Drawings

Photographs

Handwritten Notes

X-Rays

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