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Archiving

Scan archives of paper documents, photographs,
or microfilms to digital format.

Office spaces are continually bombarded with information from a variety of sources such as email, fax, traditional mail, word processor documents, spreadsheets, reports and Web information. A document management system allows users to reclaim valuable real estate in the office that was previously filled with filing cabinets and storage boxes.

Paper documents usually comprise the bulk of data stored in a PaperWise system and are often the reason for the document management initiative. Scanning paper documents is a tried-and-true method of information capture. As a mature technology, PaperWise supports a wide variety of scanners and provides extensive productivity features. Many scanners can accommodate various types of photographs and microfilms and convert them to a digital format. Scanning is simply running paper through a device; it is indexing that presents a challenge. PaperWise provides advanced features such as reading and processing barcodes, bubble-forms, recognizing specific forms or using OCR to automatically populate index fields.

PaperWise allows users to rapidly send any of these information types to the database along with necessary cataloging or index information. The PaperWise system can easily accommodate any type of file or information source without altering its original format.