In today’s competitive marketplace, companies struggle with many issues critical to their success. If you battle with synchronizing office tasks or have a difficulty getting employees access to what they need to do their jobs, digital imaging is a perfect solution. Document management, or document conversion, eliminates the need to save boxes of files and…
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I Have a Lot of Paper, But How Much Needs Digitizing?
When considering digital imaging for document management purposes, one of the most difficult tasks is determining the amount of documents needing conversion. If you don’t know the number of pages you have, there are some easy to use, online calculators that will provide a good estimate. As a quick example, if you have 100,000 pages…
When Do I Need Professional Services?
When thinking of a paperless office, the dream is often of the added productivity of your staff working with strictly digital files. It’s almost an afterthought as to how you will transform current materials into that digital format.
Best Practices: Getting the Most From Your Indexing and Data Entry Project
In order to get the most out of your document conversion project, your organization must have clearly defined goals and a set of rules to govern how you carry out the process. ILM works with both large and small organizations to clearly define the required output to ensure the best possible results. For everyone…
How to Select a Document Imaging Company
Each day is a busy day in your business. You correspond with clients, file away documents, handle data of all types with varying degrees, all to make sure that the company runs smoothly, satisfies the needs of your customers, and turns a profit. Handling data in an efficient and secure way is vital to continuing…
What is the ROI on Digitizing Documents?
It’s no surprise that an employee will spend more time looking for a document than what it takes to actually read it. What is alarming is that an average company spends around $25,000 to fill one filing cabinet. More so, it costs about $2,000 a year per maintain and keep that cabinet organized. Document management…
Onshore or Offshore Document Management
If you have already determined document conversion is right for your company, you may be struggling with whether to hire a document management company that handles the processes onshore or offshore. There are notable differences in structure and cost, but also of importance is the confidential nature of your document conversion project. With all the…
How Can I Manage My Digital Documents?
If your company is considering document conversion as a way to streamline office procedures and enhance organization, you need to give some thought to how you and your company will use and access the data. Many companies decide to go digital, but haven’t given an ounce of consideration to how they’ll function with everything converted.…
Scanning from Paper, Microfilm/Microfiche and Wide Format Sources
By now you have probably determined the enormous benefits of incorporating a paperless office, but getting there requires evaluating the many different scanning options available. Documents are digitized from paper, wide format or microfiche/microfilm formats. So, what are the differences, pros and cons of each type of source document? Paper document conversion and management is…
How Do I Go Paperless?
Transforming any office space to a paperless environment requires a commitment to time and patience. To reap the benefits of a paperless office is a large undertaking for any office and this requires accepting the changes that will occur. Consider how much needs converting and inquire with a document management company, like ILM, to assess…
