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Competitive advantage is often overlooked when thinking about Document Imaging/Management! But in today's world of instant access, don't your customers expect you to be able to retrieve at Internet speeds. Whether they should or not they do!

Paper takes up space, takes a long time to find, takes up staff resources to file and retrieve, gets lost, stresses your clients, your staff, and you. So why keep it?

What is Document Imaging and Indexing?

Document Imaging is the process of taking a paper document and creating an electronic image of that document. The electronic image can then be retrieved, viewed, printed or transmitted via electronic means. Indexing is the capture of key information which is attached to the image and is subsequently used to pinpoint which electronic image you wish to retrieve and manipulate.

Imaging is accomplished via scanners and indexing is accomplished through a combination of sophisticated software and sometimes through human interaction. Scanning equipment used by ImageWorld are several levels beyond those most people have seen, both in sophistication and speed and cost. Our medium speed scanners can process pages at 40 to 60 pages per minute. Our high speed scanners more than double that speed. After capture the image is processed by software and possibly human interaction to identify anything from limited but key information all the way to a full OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which could ultimately result in every word or symbol on the page being a searchable item.

What is Document Management

Document Imaging is the process of taking a paper document and creating an electronic image of that document. The electronic image can then be retrieved and viewed on a monitor. Controlling the paper monster can range from a relatively simple Image Management System to a full blown Electronic Record's Management. At the simpler end of this scale you can quickly access a document image via one or a combination of several key identifiers (typical examples include; name, ssn, client number, date of birth) at the other end of the scale all or significant portions of the information contained in the paper recrod are converted to categorized electronic information. In between you may want to identify and categorize or catalog form types or you may want to convert parts of the paper record to electronic format. The benefits of converting information you consider key is the ability for structured viewing, cross comparison of information, and cross linking of information.