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Paperless Office - The Modern Workflow

Why the Paperless Office?

Every office wants to go paperless and to reduce the amount of paper they use regularly. In recent years every office is saying goodbye to paper as the benefits of going paperless outweigh the benefit of having paper documents. It costs more time to maintain the paper documents and it's risky to keep them safe at all times. Paperless offices are easy to maintain by employees and customers can also access their previous documents without much hassle. Going paperless also helps to save your money spent on paper, easy accessibility of documents reduces the workload and makes the company to work more efficiently. In addition, to go paperless helps you to save space, which enables you to reduce the renting space and save money spent on storing the paper documents.



Advantages of going Paperless

Going paperless helps to maintain your document securely. You could also enjoy several other benefits by going paperless as it provides easy access to any documents, workflow and enables users to access the documents from anywhere in the world through the internet. For any organization or business that wants to go environmentally friendly, they want to avoid the paper use as it indirectly prevents the cutting the trees down and helps in preserving nature. If you are concerned about ecology, then you can save your physical paper documents to electronic format. You have to be aware of some key techniques that are required to convert your physical papers into electronic documents.

Example

If you're working for a hospital and you're trying to find a patient's history, who has visited the hospital 5 years back, then it is difficult to search his documents in the physical paper that stored somewhere in the basement. It may take hours to a whole day to find a single document. But by searching through the electronic filing system, it takes just a few seconds to retrieve the patient's data. It saves time and makes the work a lot easier for the employee, which in turn makes the work more efficient.

How it is done

Basically, to go paperless an office has to gain more knowledge and must be well aware of the techniques that can be employed. Two important technologies used in the paperless workflow: the scanning of the current paper documents and storing new incoming documents in the electronic format without printing them. Document scanning can be done by employing existing office equipment and employees or can be outsourced to the companies that specialized in high volume document scanning. These companies have dedicated high-speed scanners and your scanning can be professionally done for pennies and much-much faster. In the same way, all new incoming legal documents can also be scanned at the time of receiving and documents, that come in electronic formats, such as email, fax and web screenshots can be diverted into the existing electronic filing system.


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