Document scanning is the first step for cutting costs and improving process efficiency but is useless if you cannot find the scanned files afterwards. How can you ensure that your employees can reliably locate critical documents and information quickly and easily after scanning? In a word: indexing. What Is Indexing? Indexing scanned documents involves capturing…
In all of our years of scanning, one of the most difficult types of paper to scan that we’ve encountered is onionskin—a thin, almost translucent form of cotton that looks and feels a bit like the skin of an onion. Because of its lightweight yet surprisingly durable construction, onionskin was commonly used in the past…
Even for organizations that have implemented some combination of document scanning and document management, incorporating receipts into the expense management process can be a major headache for all involved: those employees incurring expenses, their supervisors needing to approve them, and for accounting who needs to make these receipts available to auditors. Time Consuming & Tedious…
It’s tempting to consider using the document scanning company that offers the lowest price per page or per box. But can the lowest price be too good to be true? Though price is always important, it is only one component of the entire cost. What’s in a Price There are several important steps to the…
With the advent of inexpensive yet powerful desktop scanners and easy to use point-and-click capture software, paper documents no longer need to be transported to and scanned at a company’s central facility. Document scanning and indexing can now be performed locally on-site (at multiple locations or branch offices) by anyone instead of dedicated scanner operators…
According to the Urban Institute, the nonprofit sector in the US has increased 25%, from 1.26 million nonprofit organizations in 2001 to 1.57 million in 2011, surpassing both commercial and government growth. There are 28,000 nonprofits in New York City alone, whose employees represent 14% of the City’s workforce (528,000 employees) and combined annual expenditure…
When you make a capital purchase you want to estimate the total cost of ownership to understand the real costs that need to be budgeted. The same is true with services—particularly with document scanning as some providers dangle temptingly low pricing while hiding extra fees in the fine print. When selecting a document scanning partner,…
Every day that an order sits in your inbox and every additional step that an order takes to get processed represents a delay in cash flow which can hurt the financial health of any organization. Furthermore, lost orders—which happen to a surprising number of companies—mean poor customer service at best and lost revenues at worst….
In many respects, the ongoing relationship between an organization and its employees can be tracked through its documents. If you haven’t already deployed a document management solution for your employee onboarding processes, our recent blog post on this topic may provide some insight. The same technologies used to automate the onboarding process can be extended for…