Document imaging has emerged as must required for a company. Document imaging is the process of saving all the important documents into images format and storing them on CD or DVD or any other media. Document imaging brings the world of online and paper together. There are few programs which offers document imaging services and few are mentioned below :
OpenDocMan OpenDocMan is free open source PHP document management system which means that you can modify it any way to want without any prior notice. comply with ISO 17025 and OIE standard for document management. The Setup and the use procedure is quite easy as it has minimalist approach to user interface such that IT person who are installing it will enjoy the automated process. Its provides a comprehensive way towards user management with permissions. A good DMS allows fine-grained access to each files and OpenDocMan does has that.
The other features of OpenDocMan are
- very light and easy to install
- Add any of file types
- No need of FTP for transfer, upload directly from your browser
- Seperate category for each department
- Provides Revision history
- Automated document review process
- Automated file expiration process
- Quick search by author, department or category
- No external indexing processes required
- Supports English, Dutch, German, Turkish & Spanish.
Microsoft Office Document Imaging With Microsoft Office Document Imaging you can scan paper documents and convert them to images format like Tagged Images File Format (TIFF) or Microsoft Document Imaging Format(MDI) to your computer, local drive or CD, DVD or network server.
Microsoft Office Document Imaging has following features-
- Scan multi page documents and single page documents.
- Read a scanned document or fax quickly & easily on your computer screen.
- Fill out simple form online that has been left easily.
- Performs Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in a scanned document or a fax.
- Copy text and images from scanned document and paste it any office program.
- Search for text within a scanned document or fax
- Send Scanned documents to others in email
Content Central Ademero makes document scanning, search and retrieval simple and in managed way with content central. This is browser based document management system which provides Access, Speed and Security. If you have more than 10 employees then go with enterprises edition.
The features of Ademero Content Central are
- Direct Scans of the documents
- QCards to print the cover sheets to identify one more documents
- Easily manage your documents
- Quick and easy way to find your documents
- Avoid losing documents
- Access it from anywhere
eCopy eCopy provides the powerful document scanning, OCR, document conversion and PDF solutions. With eCopy ShareScan makes the powerful scanning and OCR accessible to every office worker right at the copier.
The following are the advantages of eCopy –
- Convert your paper documents in electronic format
- Search, track, copy and print documents easily
- Manage risks with paper documents
- Provides network scanning through eCopy ScanStation
Laserfiche
Laserfiche is an another document imaging software which can reduce paper wastage of your company. Laserfiche can be very useful as a content management system.