Electronic imaging and the paperless office
Managing paper documents is not easy. Distribution of paper documents is manual, and a slow process. The high cost of filing and retrieving them makes paper documents expensive to manage. The electronic imaging technology offers an effective solution to these problems. The concept of the paperless office, for scanning and digitizing the business documents and processing the images instead of the paper itself is picking up.
Electronic imaging gives us the following benefits:
It reduces storage space.
The documents are stored as magnetic or optical images. This eliminates the possibility of their deterioration due to age, adverse temperatures, or weather conditions.
It facilitates instant retrieval of the documents.
It provides security of the documents by providing separate view, edit, and delete access to the relevant people.
It provides simultaneous access to documents for multiple users.
It provides usage and tracking of documents.
It provides a centralized...
