Does Sharepoint store scanned images as part of a database?
This was selected as Best Answer Yes, SharePoint does store the image in the SQL Server database. You can buy third party products that will enable storage outside the database (ie shared directory, RAID or optical drive). SharePoint supports indexing metadata fields within any Office 2003/2007/2010 document, but scanned images are a little different. You can index a scanned image into SharePoint but there is a challenge in having the index panel AND the scanned image open at the same time (you need to see the scanned image while indexing in order to index it correctly). We use third party products (ie KnowledgeLake www.knowledgelake.com) to do this.
