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How to Preserve Paper Documents: A Comprehensive Guide

Armstrong Archives

All businesses and organizations that have been in existence for more than a decade or so have had to contend with the creation, storage, handling, and disposal of documents. Of course, not all documents are created equal when it comes to protection, handling, and destruction.

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The First Step to Effective Working from Home: Digitize your Paper Documents

AIIM

But there’s a much more significant issue that will prevent many employees from being as effective as they possibly could be in their home offices: paper. No, not the paper products that have been scarce for weeks now, but all the paper documents and records that are still prevalent in so many organizations.

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How to Eliminate Paper Processes

AIIM

Despite the proven operational improvements to be gain by going paperless, paper is still prevalent in too many core business processes today including loan applications, insurance claims, and customer onboarding. Steps to Eliminate Paper. What are the Benefits of Eliminating Paper Processes?

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Capturing Paper Documents - Best Practices and Common Questions

AIIM

Despite technology, most companies continue to struggle to manage the burden of paper in many important business processes. Also known as “capture,” this capability is characterized by the ability to scan paper documents to store and use them in digital form instead of paper. What is Scan and Store?

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GUEST ESSAY: Going beyond watermarks to protect sensitive documents from illegal access

The Last Watchdog

They also enrich documents with metadata and place them in crypto-containers, access to which is only granted by permission. However, all of these solutions are powerless when it comes to photographing a document with a smartphone and compromising printed copies of documents. There are more exotic ways of protecting documents.

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NEW TECH: DigiCert Document Signing Manager leverages PKI to advance electronic signatures

The Last Watchdog

Related: Why PKI will endure as the Internet’s secure core. Yet electronic signatures do have their security limitations. Trzupek outlined how DSM allows for legally-binding documents with auditability and management of signers. “It That’s what Document Signing Manager does.

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Archival Document Storage Explained: Essential Guide to Preserving Your History

Armstrong Archives

Documents play an important role in preserving memories, whether through official records or any number of other materials. However, many of these documents won’t stand the test of time. Archival document storage provides a solution to maintain them indefinitely for future generations to appreciate. which holds the Magna Carta.