Conversion Benchmarks

There are many factors that influence conversion speed, especially when OCR is involved.

What’s going to make the most difference is RAM, processor speed, and the number of processor cores. Regarding the latter, QuikFile can convert up to two files simultaneously if you have multiple processors or a processor with more than one core. This makes a huge difference.

Other factors that affect speed: the quality of the page being OCRed (e.g. a fax with tiny type will be very slow compared to a page of clean, double-spaced, 12-point text), the resolution of the image (black-and-white is the fastest, grayscale slower, color slower still), whether the documents are TIFF or PDF (PDF adds a step to the process - extract images), etc.

As a rule of thumb, you can process about 500 clean, black-and-white pages an hour on a fast processor. Double that for multiple processors.