In many institutions, paper archives fill entire rooms and finding a file can take hours, even days. Digitization changes the game entirely.
Once scanned, indexed and processed with OCR, documents can be searched in seconds, from several locations and under precise access rights. Originals are better protected from wear, fire and flooding, and every consultation is logged.
Our project with CARMI proved it: more than 500,000 records digitized and search times cut from several days to a few seconds. Success depends as much on method — inventory, filing plan, quality control — as on the EDM software itself.
