Document imaging is a technology of digitizing paper files.
Document imaging has been around for many years, but it has only been in the past 5 years or so that imaging has been practical for most companies. The power of the Pentium-class server computers now provides plenty of processing power for an imaging system. At the same time, the cost of the Pentium-class servers has dropped to levels that almost any business can afford. Document imaging moves the information to the people rather than making the people move to the information. It performs a service similar that that of a database or accounting server in that it provides fast access to information.