When a company wants to go paperless and begins to scan the contents of their filing cabinets into a document management system many are surprised to find many files previously thought to be lost.
When it comes to document storage, filing cabinets are simple things with no brain. We’re provided a drawer and a key and the rest of the work is left up to us. There’s no advice on where to put documents, we’re not told exactly where certain documents can be found, documents aren’t automatically routed to the right people in workflow, and our key certainly can’t be taken away to stop our access to the files.
Filing cabinets have gained the reputation as the office “Bermuda Triangle” of lost documents. Over the years multiple people in the office file, misplace and not return documents to the filing cabinets. As people organize to their own standards and methods, documents are inevitably filed in the wrong places and the next time a file is needed, it can’t be found.
One of the ways a document management system can resolve the problems of lost files is through the use of OCR technology. An OCR system can capture text and make it searchable on the computer and lost documents can be searched and found in a matter of seconds. By being able to search for a document by vendor or related subject matter, files never remain lost for long.
Datamax Communications Department, on Aug 30, 2011 7:30:00 PM
