Widespread expansion of computer networks and access to high-speed Internet has led to the popularity of digital content. Digital content can delivered easily across networks to users in any part of the world. Easy access, storage and scalability, digital...
Tompkins County Digitizing 200-Year-Old Historic Records
Tompkins County Public Library, providing local historic information online to the general public, started their digitization efforts around 4 years back. Now the library is well poised to provide online access to local history materials relating to Tompkins County...
How OCR Helped a Herbarium Disseminate Knowledge
Optical character recognition (OCR) is an often indispensable tool in data entry and transcription. This has been used by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) for expanding its digital archive. The digitization drive is being carried out with great enthusiasm....
Nullifying Data Entry Errors in Voter Registration
Data entry error in voter rolls is not something new during the voter registration process. It often happens while transferring voter registration information from handwritten registration applications to voter databases. According to recent news, a report posted on...
Six Reasons Why You Should Adopt Document Scanning
Digitizing documents is an effective way to improve the efficiency of a business and reduce costs. It has evolved from the traditional, monolithic, 'back office' production level systems of document capturing to today's decentralized system, where information is...
E-Signature Technology Attaining Popularity
Paper forms that supported signatures for centuries are vestiges of old, out-of-date workflows. Forms had first of all to be printed to get them signed and the process involved a manual workflow. Avoiding the requirement to print and sign has become the focus for many...
How to Successfully Transition to an Outsourcing Model
Organizations that intend to outsource business processes, faces the biggest risks during the transition phase. During this period, employees are moving from one way of working to another, which may include the redesign, retooling, and standardization of processes and...
Data and Document Management Training Helps People with Special Needs
Studies make it clear that the employment rate of individuals with intellectual disability (ID) lags significantly behind that of the general adult population. According to a report in Disability and Employment, a recent survey conducted by Gallup and the University...
Digitizing Homestead Records for Better View of American History
Businesses, libraries, courts education departments, and other public and private organizations across the U.S. are digitizing their paper documents for the many benefits it offers. Since 1999, Homestead National Monument of America has been part of an ambitious...
How to Convert Paper Charts to EMR
The healthcare industry is continuing its transition from traditional paper documents to electronic medical records (EMR). During the transition stage, many healthcare practices are focusing on how the data should be captured, stored, and analyzed. To make a complete...