Introduction to Image Technology

Business today is wrestling with mountains of paper that must be moved, filed, located, and moved again from person to person. Often the paper must be stored for extended periods of time, sometimes as long as seven or more years. The long-term storage of paper records is becoming more and more costly. An image system not only makes the document capture, retention, and retrieval process more cost efficient, but also makes it a faster service to the users. The purpose of this paper is to explain the basic concepts of image processing in business.