# Sight Savers store Gift Aid declarations with scanning software

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/12/10/sight-savers-store-gift-aid-declarations-scanning-software/
- Published: 2003-12-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

IT for Charities reports that Sight Savers International are using scanning company
Scancapture to keep electronic records of Gift Aid declarations.
Scancapture’s product
enables the charity to keep a digital image (saved in TIF format) of donors’ Gift
Aid declarations and link them to their records on their supporter database. This
helps reduce the amount of paper records that need storage, and makes accessing 
the data faster and cheaper.

The charity is also using the product to scan questionnaires and provide results
in csv, Adobe Acrobat and PowerPoint formats, depending on the audience. The first
Donor Survey project took just three days to scan and generate results. According
to Scancapture, “the whole process took around one tenth of the time it would take
for one manual operator to key the data in their Supporter database.”

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