Unlocking Data With Document Capture And Imaging

Before organizations can banish paper from the office, proper document management and capture processes must be adopted. This E-Guide reveals the keys to effective document capture, and explores how capture and scanning tools can offer expanded features such as improved image quality, color and optical character recognition to accelerate the process.

Document capture: the first step in effective document management

By Alan R. Earls, Contributor

Despite a profusion of document management technologies that have the potential to banish paper from the business world, most organizations continue to struggle with efforts to automate the process of storing and managing their corporate documents. Indeed, the promise of the “paperless office” continues to be elusive decades after the term was first coined.

Accounts payable, logistics and order processing are just a few of the core business activities that can suffer because of the inherent inefficiencies of using paper documents, said Kevin Craine, author of the book Designing a Document Strategy and host of The Document Strategy Podcast. But to make effective electronic document management more of a reality, he and other analysts noted, companies first have to get sales orders, invoices and the like into their systems by means of document imaging and document capture. And that can be a tall order.

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