Guest Column: Enhancing Compliance Through Streamlined Document Capture And Handling

By Thaddeus Bouchard, Chief Technology Officer, Omtool, Ltd.

In most businesses, documents come and go across a wide variety of media in a wide variety of formats. Document capture and handling brings a new, efficient, and flexible way to capture, transform, and move those documents to and from multiple people, places, and formats – in a secure, compliant manner. You can exchange documents by:

• Faxing
• E-mailing
• Scanning to a file
• Network printing
• E-filing to a choice of locations, including repositories for document management, records management, litigation support, and archiving

It starts with the familiar, simple and ubiquitous networked multi-function peripheral (MFP) the new-breed copy machine and provides "any-to-many" means of scanning and distributing electronic versions of paper documents to multiple destinations in multiple formats.