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Document Scanning Before an Office Move: A Week-by-Week Project Plan
Is it better to move hundreds of boxes and filing cabinets to a new office, or digitize the records before the relocation? Many organizations begin this decision by asking, "Should I digitize...
Pros and Cons of Using Personal Cloud Storage for Your Files Explained
What is personal cloud storage, and is it really worth using for managing your digital files in today’s connected world - especially when people are asking questions like Will I lose everything if I...
Medical Record Data Abstraction: Process, Examples & Benefits
If you're wondering how to become a medical records abstractor, what examples of data abstraction are, and what the 5 C's of medical record documentation are, it helps to first understand the core...
How Can OCR Preserve Tables & Numbers in Scanned Manuals?
Learn how layout analysis, sample testing and quality control help OCR preserve tables, numbers and page order in scanned manuals.
How Should You Shred HR and Financial Records Before an Office Move?
Learn how to shred HR and financial records before an office move with retention checks, secure pickup, chain of custody, and audit proof.
How Do Public Libraries Preserve Local Newspapers & Microfilm Online?
What should a public library do when its local newspaper archive is already online, but the collection still needs to move, expand, and stay searchable? This is a serious planning issue because...
How Nonprofits Digitize Filing Cabinets Into a Searchable Archive?
What happens when a non-profit founded in 1970 has decades of records spread across 50 filing cabinets and 250 fully packed drawers? At that scale, digitization isn't just a storage solution; it's...
How to Scan and Preserve 19th Century Glass Plate Negatives?
Glass plate negative scanning converts photographic images from fragile glass substrates into high-resolution digital files. These images come primarily from wet collodion and gelatin dry plates....
How to Digitize Engineering Drawings and As-Built Plans [ AEC]
Have you ever thought what happens to an engineering drawing that is never digitized? It fades. It tears. It turns yellow. It gets buried in a plan room, folded incorrectly for the last time, or...
How to Digitize Bound Volumes Without Damaging the Spine?
Preservation-grade digitization begins with protecting what holds the record together. The National Archives holds more than 13.5 billion pages of historically valuable records — yet as of 2024,...








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