Electronic documents created from document images can be indexed, searched, and accessed in a variety of ways to make their information more useful and valuable. One particularly interesting document imaging software system is Adobe's Acrobat Capture . Of course, document imaging systems can rarely recognize all the text and convert it to computer text, so Acrobat takes an interesting approach. Using this approach, the document will keep the correct look, although, of course, there may be problems with searches. Your use of the documents will affect the storage and processing of the images.
Some industries require documents that are valid from a legal standpoint.
Documents may sometimes be required as evidence, and electronic documents may not be valid. Your existing staff may need more technical training. A training budget should be part of the project, and retraining should be part of the project plan and organizational goals. To become involved in document imaging, you presumably already have a large collection of paper documents. These documents must be converted into electronic images in a process known as backfile conversion.