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Article: News in Brief.(ICC Information Group Ltd.)(Thomson Pharma )(Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development )
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- Information World Review
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- April 13, 2005
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Byline: mark chillingworth
ICC Information embarks on microfiche scanning project
ICC Information has embarked on a massive company document scanning programme to transfer Companies House information it holds in the pre-1996 timeframe. Data on more than 360,000 "live trading companies" incorporated before 1996 will be made available on demand -- currently users have to wait between 20 minutes and an hour to be sent a digital scan of information held on microfiche. ICC's head of products and services, Paul Westcott, said the project involved a big investment in scanners and people who are scheduled to complete the work in November 2006. "This is a unique ...