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What are the benefits of Document Conversion & Scanning?

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It�s easy to see that there are many benefits to document conversion and scanning, or digital archiving. The most obvious is that digital images take up less office space than hard copies.

Once important documents have been converted to digital images, they are accessible for use in a myriad of situations. When properly indexed, documents can be sorted by any number of keywords, alphabetical or numerical systems, or even by geographic location as it pertains to the document. These uses are only available if the document conversion and scanning allows for more than just an image of the original document to be created. Formats allowing for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) imaging will allow users to access documents in the following ways:

Court Clerks can maintain file systems which can call up cases by: Names of the parties involved or their attorneys, legal description of a piece of property, case number, or criminal classification.

Medical offices can retrieve data based on: Name of the patient, referring physician, diagnosis code, insurance company, similar symptoms or age of patient.

Other benefits of document conversion and scanning include:

Faster and easier document retrieval,
Being able to use office space for work instead of storage,
More accurate filing by reducing the possibility of misfiling,
Allowing access to the information by more than one person at a time,
Allowing access to information from a remote location,
Reduced photocopy and printing costs, and
Increased security.

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