Problems We Solve

Paperless Office

The paperless office is now considered to be a philosophy to work with minimal paper and convert all forms of documentation to a digital form. The ideal is driven by a number of motivators including productivity gains, costs savings, space saving, the need to share information and reduced environmental impact. One key aspect of the paperless office philosophy is the conversion of paper documents, photos, engineering plans, microfiche and all the other paper based systems to digital documents.

The technologies that may be used include:

• scanners
• high speed scanners – used for scanning very large volumes of paper
• book copiers – that take photos of large books and manuscripts
• wide format scanners – for scanning engineering drawings
• photo scanners
• negative scanners
• microfiche scanner – used to convert microfiche to digital documents
• Fax to PDF conversion

Each of the technologies uses software that converts the raster formats into other forms depending on need. EDMS can then be used to store and index the above document types.