Document indexing is the process of relating data to a document in order to make it searchable and also to provide information on what the document is about; e.g. whether it is an invoice, a check, a bank statement etc. The main purpose in indexing a document though is to…
Do you scan paper documents on a regular basis?
Do you have a paper archive that needs to be digitized?
Do you find yourself scanning all documents of a particular type with the same settings?
If you answered “Yes” to at least one of the above questions, then…
Until a few years ago, being ‘social’ was considered old-fashioned. Being tech savvy was the norm. Then people found that without socializing, life became very impersonal. We didn’t have time to keep up with the Jones’ – forget greeting them with a smile! But with social media like Facebook and Twitter, things have changed for the better, in many ways. So why not…
Owning and running a small business is not a small job, as you would know. In fact, the word ‘small’ is misleading in many ways. A small business is small only because of the number of workers it employs or its scale of operations (sales turnover/revenue, in some countries). It in no way denotes the kind of effort it takes to make it a successful venture. Let’s look at some of the challenges faced by small business owners and how you can they can be overcome…
Our new article titled “5 Myths about Electronic Document Management for Small Businesses” just went live on the Digital Landfill blog. Below is a brief summary of the article and a link to it…
Wikipedia defines a natural disaster as “the effect of a natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, or landslide).” Natural disasters are different from natural hazards. A natural hazard turns into a disaster generally when humans are affected by the hazard and are vulnerable to it. For a business organization, this has 2 implications…
Startling fact…
#1: Paper generally makes up to 70% of office waste.
#2: Our planet is still losing at least 16.2 million hectares (40 million acres) of forests through logging and land clearing.
#3: The 6.75 billion world population has reached a stage where…
Making use of folders, tags, document types etc. helps you group documents and find them quickly. But what if you want to mark a certain portion within the document as say, “Done” so that your colleagues don’t waste time reading the entire document? Or say you want to insert a bookmark on a document so that you know the next time where you stopped reading the document last time? Well, the answer to this is…
In our previous post we discussed why you should evaluate document management software. Here, we will look at the ‘how’ of it…
Scanning documents is one of the first things done when using electronic document management software to improve your work processes. A major dilemma faced by small business owners is: whether to destroy paper based documents or to retain them; and if retain them, then for how long?
Once you have converted the paper based documents to electronic form, you should…