The cost of new technology is one of the biggest obstacles in converting to a paperless office. Hardware upgrades including new computers, scanners, printers, and software are necessities when converting to an electronic office. However, the cost of technology is often misconstrued. Affordable hardware is more available today than ever before. …
The typical law office has paper up to their ears, it is time to take a good hard look and find a way to minimize your time dealing with countless paper records. Other a couple years we have met with a dozen or so law firms that are thinking about going …
People are creatures of habit. Especially, if these habits have been building for years or even decades. This fact is often the most used excuse to prevent an office from changing the paper-based workflow they’ve been comfortable with for years. However, paperless workflow and electronic documents are becoming more and more popular over …
Many people have asked me “so we have these files scanned, what do we exactly do with them now”. Well, that is the most important question you have. I am going to talk about finding the right software that fits your needs. Each office has completely different workflows, and that …
Before I go on about whether or not to OCR your scanned documents, let us talk about what exactly OCR is. Optical Character Recognition (OCR), takes your image, for instance, your PDF, and converts all written words into encoded text. Which will then make it possible to search for text throughout …
There is an idea out there that the process of converting to an electronic office is too expensive and not cost effective. Costly paperless software’s, new workflows, and hardware purchases make converting to an electronic office seem like a daunting financial task. However, if the money spent on this process is seen …