The Asia/Pacific high-speed document imaging scanner market has experienced significant growth in the past few years. Driving this growth is the rapid adoption of document capturing solutions by companies interested in improving efficiencies and customer relationships while reducing business expenses. IDC's Asia/Pacific Semiannual High-Speed Document Imaging Scanner Tracker® provides total sizing of the document scanner market in Asia/Pacific. It tracks the key vendors in each local market, and these vendors will be interviewed to size the total available market and provide vendor share analysis.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurement for this tracker is in shipments and end-user revenue.

Technologies and Subtechnologies

• Flatbed/Auto Document Feeder
• Sheetfed

Segmentations

• Channels: Distributor, dealer, direct, VAR/SI, and retailer
• User segment: Government, education, home, small office, small business, medium-sized business, large business, and very large business

Geographic Scope

• Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (six countries)

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include two years of historical data, two years of semiannual forecasts, and an additional five years of annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the regional and country levels. Examples of the segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:

• Simplex scanning speed

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a semiannual basis with tools such as pivot tables. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Historical data: Week 9 after period closes
• Forecast data: Week 13 after period closes
• Report: Week 13 after period closes