Digital and electronic records management is vital since it helps make your electronic data accessible. If it’s locked away in a database or server, it’s not particularly visible, and it would thus be easy to overlook when making important decisions. Converting data into digital format is a vital component of this process. Scanning, OCR, and other extraction methods are integral to creating a paperless workflow, but many organizations simply aren’t there yet. Often, reliance on paper gets in the way.