This white paper examines the benefits of a uniform records management and capture environment that spans paper and electronic record archives, feeding scanned images to process and making them widely available for search and discovery, no matter what medium they are stored on, and where they are stored. 

In discussing the strategic decisions between in-house storage and outsourcing, whether for all-paper, all-electronic or mixed-type archives, we clarify the key issues regarding scanning strategies (scan-on-entry, scan-to-process, scan-on-demand), as well as the integration issues as they apply to internal, external and cloud-based systems and infrastructures.