Office Document Strategies Blog

Tis the Season to Shred & Scan

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Topics: document storage strategy, document management, Hosted document management, docucapture, Paper shredding, paper filing, Paperless office, Less paper office, digital filing

Every once in awhile I come across articles that are published in other periodicals that cover a topic we like to address in this blog in a manner that makes it worth republishing some of the material.  Of course we do not wish to plagerize others good work and therefore we always try to credit our sources. 

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Topics: document management, paper filing, Paperless office, digital filing

We all know that traditional retail industries have changed significantly due to the digitization of commerce.  While there are still more dollars changing hands in physical stores than online the volume of digital transactions have mushroomed exponentially and the interaction at physical stores has changed as well.

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Topics: workflow processes, Scanning, document management, business processes, paper filing, Paperless office, digital tools, digital filing, automation

In the current world space for electronic storage seems unlimited.  Unlike the days when everything a business did was held in paper and stored in files in cabinets today's offices hold massive amounts of information on individual computers, on network servers, in cloud storage sites and sometimes if they are current on technology in organized electronic storage systems. 

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Topics: document filing, document storage strategy, document management, paper filing, Paperless office, digital filing

Business processes have long been paper dominated systems.  Until the advent of computerized process systems some time ago everything that drove the operations of most businesses relied on pieces of paper to flow within and outside of a business for it to succeed.

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Topics: document filing, document storage strategy, document management, Document, digital filing

If you need to improve productivity and find a simple way to Scan to your PC, Mac locally or in Cloud Apps like Microsoft 365 (Office 365) OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox or others, then this could be the App you have been looking for.

Most modern MFPs (multi-function printers) include the capability of basic network scanning in their setup. Using simple scan to email, or scan to folder systems, they make it possible for users to send and convert paper documents to images like PDF format. This capability provides many benefits to your users in the 'war on paper' but still leads to manual steps for filing or renaming, making the systems not as efficient for frequent work.

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Topics: Scanning, document management, MFP, Kyocera copier, Paperless office, office technology

When I started in the Document Management field the common term for the practice of capturing paper records and converting them to digital images was simply document imaging.  While the process involved in doing the conversion seems pretty simple in today's terms back twenty some years ago it was seen as a miraculous change in office environments.  

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Topics: Scanning, document management, docucapture, digital filing

One of the frustrations that many organizations experience when they decide to deploy electronic workflows as part of their document management is dealing with signatures on documents. 

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Topics: document management

Virtually every multifunction printer (MFP) that is sold today has the ability to scan documents.  For many purchasers this scanning capability is one of the attractions about doing an upgrade to a new device.  They see it as at least the first step to doing some sort of document management and reducing their dependence upon paper files.

The first step in document management.

They are right, it can be a good step but I suggest it is not the first one.  Capturing paper documents through scanning is certainly part of the process which can lead to returns. Storing computer generated documents internally is also a great part of the process. Both of these are components to a well designed document management system.  They however are NOT the first step.

The real first step:  

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Topics: document filing, document management, MFP

In the past two decades the field of document imaging has evolved through many forms.  When I first started out in this area it was simply known as Imaging.  This typically meant the use of a production

 level scanner to capture paper files and then store them into a structured electronic filing system for archive and potentially for later reuse through a search tool. 

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Topics: document filing, document storage strategy, document management, business processes