The Western European document scanner market has shown growth in the second quarter of 2013, increasing by 29,9% year-on-year to approximately 89 000 units.
This is according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Western European Quarterly Document Scanner Tracker.
“The large volume of paper documents that need to be either archived or processed in automatised digital workflows is driving demand for robust high-capacity business scanners in Europe,” says Arnaud Gagneux, research director, Imaging Printing and Document Solutions, IDC.
“The flow of unstructured or variable data and information will increase and systems will need to be flexible to cope with various types of data and the ability to access it through several different media types,” says Julio Vial, research manager, Western European Document Scanner Tracker, IDC.
The distributed document scanner segment has increased by 30,2% year-on-year and accounts for 96% of the overall document scanner market. The production document scanner market grew by 9,8% in 2Q13 year-on-year. This segment accounts for just over 3% of the market share.
The top five vendors in Western Europe in 2Q13 were Fujitsu, Canon, Epson, HP and Brother, accounting for 85,8% of total document scanner shipments.