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Paper is one of the largest challenges a business encounters in reducing costs, improving service and increasing efficiencies. Businesses around the world have come to realize that manual and paper-based processes for managing important documents are not efficient and expensive.

Many business professionals want to go paperless and document imaging is the medium of today for developing eco-friendly, cost effective and efficient automated paperless software filing systems. Document Imaging Software delivers a smart, flexible and easily integrated paperless office to proactively capture, index, file manage and protect your business intelligence.

vFiler was developed using using OCR, barcode reading and forms recognition technologies. vFiler Paperless Software requires the Microsoft Windows operating system and will run on Windows XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003 and Server 2008.

Many people think the paperless office is a pipe dream, but an office that manages paper efficiently and with less paper is totally within our reach. The 100% Paperless office is on its way. Most people today (i am speaking about the most affluent third of the planet here) read many more words on screen than on paper every day, internet newspapers have more readers than paper papers, and grandmothers and their grandchildren communicate via texting and e-mail. Nevertheless, paper is still here, increasingly as an irritant rather than a resource.

What would it take to get rid of paper? To understand that, we need to be a little bit more specific about what paper really is – or rather, what we use it for. Here are the most common uses – and some guesses on their future. You find paper used as information storage in archives, neatly ordered so you can find and consult it when necessary. Paper archives are expensive to maintain, poorly searchable, and hard to access from a distance. In ten years, i do not think there will be any sizeable information-oriented paper archives left – even libraries will largely be monuments to the free word rather than free words, people will access the information digitally – thanks to ever-cheaper hard disks and scanners.

Is the paperless office is a good idea? Personally, I think it is a terrific idea because the number one thing I hate is losing paper. I hate it when I cannot find a document or have permanently lost an important document. But in the paperless software world, I can easily search, locate, retrieve and view the information I need much faster than it takes to get off my rump and finger through a filing cabinet. And if I decide to print it, I can rest assured my document will still remain in the paperless office as a permanent record.

Author is Dean Kensington who is
Document Management Consultant for Vircosoft.

Dean specializes in helping
small and mid-sized businesses use the vFiler Automated

Filing System and the HighPoint
Document + Project Management System to
GO
PAPERLESS. 

More information on

Paperless Office visit their website at
http://www.vircosoft.com

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