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Document Management Software
jadawley | Dec 17 2006
I'm looking for a way to store my documents for easy retrieval. I tend to categorize things in terms of the customer I'm dealing or by product lines (companies we buy from). So, I have a credenza lined with binders for customers and a file cabinet filled with the same. I'm looking for an alternative system for 3 reasons: 1) It doesn't seem efficient to store all this stuff in paper form (takes up too much space). I'm looking at software such as MS OneNote. I have a good scaner that puts everything in .pdf. So I should be able to electronically store things. But I'm not going to do that unless I have a way or organizing it. Any opinions on that software or any other suggestions? John 8 Comments
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 Scanner, OCR and Google DesktopSubmitted by tyroneking on September 30, 2007 - 11:00am.
Does your scanner do OCR? If it does then you can use Google Desktop to index your scanned documents and also organise into a simple folder structure, perhaps by company name. You can add an additional layer of 'tagging' by dragging shortcuts to the documents into other folders (e.g. 'furniture', etc.) - you could even use Freemind to organise your documents. I've worked in document management systems in the past and they seem to focus on versioning, access control, sharing and workflow of documents, which I'm guessing you don't need, and they are often centralised so you'd need to have server software running on your laptop which is overkill to just be able to access your documents. » POSTED IN:
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