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Electronic Document Production/Management

Web Development can help you manage your documents more effectively. If you have valuable information tied up in paper documents you should look at electronic document production and management. We can scan your paper documents and produce easy to access and search Adobe Acrobat PDFs (Portable Document Format).

Document Production
Electronic versions of your paper documents are very inexpensive to produce at less than 10 cents per page. The pages are scanned as compressed TIFFs at 240 dpi, which assures great printouts and on-screen readability. Scanned pages with text are also run through OCR (optical character recognition) to allow searching on text. The scanned TIFFs and OCR output are saved to a PDF file.

View a sample PDF document.

With electronic documents (PDFs) you can:

  • Search for text in your documents
  • Make your documents available on the internet or over a network
  • Secure your documents with password protection
  • Send your documents via email quickly and easily
  • Develop a searchable database of your documents

Document Management: How Much Data Do You Have?
To get an idea of the storage space you could save and the convenience of keeping the documents in electronic format, take at look at these numbers:

  • 1 File Cabinet (4 drawer) of Paper (10 thousand pages) (Scanned) = 1 CD-ROM
  • 10 File Cabinets of Paper (Scanned) = 5 GigaByte (GByte) = 1 DVD

Once your documents are on a CD-ROM or DVD, simply load the disk on your desktop computer to get access to thousands of documents. All documents are searchable using Acrobat PDF Reader.


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University of Washington Creative Communications uwpubs@u.washington.edu