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Digital Imaging Standard

NOTE: The AIIM Standards Committee, C24, Document Imaging is seeking the assistance of the AIIM Capture Community to complete a section of a standard they are working on for digital imaging. Please... read more

imaging, documentmanagement, capture

Scanning

Scanning is the actual scanning and transformation of paper documents into an electronic image. Can also mean the digitizing of microfilm. In addition to scanners, electronic images can also be cap... read more

What Is Capture

Document capture and data capture are not the same thing. Document capture is the conversion of a paper document into an electronic image of that document. Data capture extracts data from a busines... read more

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Image Cleanup

Enhances image quality for improved recognition accuracy.

What is Capture?

Document capture and data capture are not the same thing.

Document Preparation

Readying a document so that it will scan without jamming the scanner.

Scanning

Transforming a paper document into an electronic image.

Forms Processing

Capturing forms or data from forms.

Outsource or In-House?

Should you scan yourself or have someone do it for you?

Recognition

Translates a scanned image for indexing and retrieval.

Indexing

Using metadata to be able to find documents once scanned.

Output

After going through the capture process, electronic content is released to different formats.

Distributed Capture

Capturing content where it's created, rather than in a centralized environment.

Glossary

Definitions covering all of information management.


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