Small businesses and professional firms are much more aware these days on the need to go paperless. The one obstacle that they might face is the “how-to” of it. The first thought that comes to mind when we read the words ‘paperless office’, is usually that we need to say a permanent goodbye to our old friend paper that has faithfully served us all these decades. However, this is not what going paperless means. Going paperless really means…
With the wide range of scanners available in the market today, first time buyers can often get confused about which scanner to purchase. Acknowledging that you need to digitize documents to make them permanent and more portable is one thing. Choosing the right tool that will let you do so is another decision altogether. The white paper How to Choose a Scanner discusses…
Once you have decided to scan your paper archive, choosing where to carry out the activity can make a significant difference to the cost of the exercise and the safety of documents. In the white paper titled Choosing between Onsite and Offsite Scanning of Paper Archives we look at…
A few days after Earth Day every year, we understandably forget about the planet, as we go about keeping up with our busy schedules. Most of the time, we leave the eco-friendly activities to volunteers or charitable organizations. But with just a little conscious effort, we too can do our bit to care for the planet – for ourselves. Here’s a little background about Earth Day…
Deciding to move to a paperless office is one of the best decisions you could take for your small business. The first step to go paperless is to scan your paper based documents. But do you know which documents you should scan first… Our white paper titled Paper Archives or Current Documents: Which to Scan First? can make it easy for you. Here’s what it covers…
One of the reasons why it is so easy to start using Sohodox and get productive in hours is the ease of adding documents to the Sohodox database. In this post, we will look at the ways in which you can do this…
Document indexing is the process of relating data to a document in order to make it searchable and also to provide information on what the document is about; e.g. whether it is an invoice, a check, a bank statement etc. The main purpose in indexing a document though is to…
Do you scan paper documents on a regular basis?
Do you have a paper archive that needs to be digitized?
Do you find yourself scanning all documents of a particular type with the same settings?
If you answered “Yes” to at least one of the above questions, then…
In an earlier post, we had looked at some new features in Version 7 of Sohodox. Here, we look at a couple more… Background Text Extraction/OCR In earlier versions of Sohodox, the Text Extraction for a document was performed at the time of adding the document. But now, starting with Version 7, this process will [...]
The most valued resource among businesses of all sizes today is time. In fact, pay rates are often calculated in terms of time. Professionals like lawyers, consultants, CPAs and others often charge high hourly fees. An hour lost without a planned task being done can never be regained. The task though, still needs to be [...]
