When you need to find an old document do you get covered in dust rooting through old cabinets or cardboard boxes. Document management is the answer. The honest answers to these questions are frequently disturbing.
Document management makes information retrieval simple.
The benefits of document imaging The modern approach is to scan the documents and store the images in a database. One CD can hold many thousands of document images in a format which does not deteriorate with time. Information retrieval is easy when document images are needed. You can specify the key fields set up in the database which then allows you to search the database and retrieve images of the documents on a screen. You can then print the images if hardcopy is required , and by storing on read only media, your documents are preserved from alteration or deletion in a format which is legally valid.