As files proliferate and become containers for multimedia objects, document management is more necessity than luxury. Now, it's becoming part of the system software, with profound implications for networks and the user interface.
- by Andy Reinhardt
Like database, E-mail, and telephony vendors, suppliers of document management systems are now turning to published interfaces as a way of opening up their clients and services.
Archived information is useless if it can't be retrieved, and the easiest kind of information to retrieve is textual: documents that either originated in machine-readable form or were converted to ASCII text by OCR scanning.
- by Tom R. Halfhill
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