This IDC study focuses on U.S. high-speed imaging scanners and scan-enabled MFP adoption by businesses for digitizing hardcopy documents. It contains 2003 and 2004 actual shipments and 2005?2009 forecast data. Moreover, the study discusses trends and changes that have evolved during the past year.

Questions this study answers are:

"The growing demand for converting hardcopy documents into digital formats will drive overall expansion of the scan-enabled device market," says Ron Glaz, program director of IDC's Digital Imaging Solutions and Services. "The increase in market size will allow for both MFP manufacturers and single-function scanner manufacturers to coexist for the foreseeable future."