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Benefits of outsourcing to a document scanning service
For many businesses that have high volumes of paper and are looking to go electronic, document scanning services can help digitize paper quickly and efficiently. Scanning business documents often helps customers save money, since spending time or hiring new employees for this process would be more expensive. There are many reasons that businesses choose to outsource their…
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IRS saves $1 billion with paperless taxes and staff cuts
As the April 15 deadline for individual taxes draws closer, more news from the IRS was announced this week. The government agency found that with staff cuts and administrative changes, it has saved more than $1 billion since 2010. While the IRS may deal with significantly more paper and funds than the average office, the practices…
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How strong is your document capture service?
For document capture services that handle large numbers of documents, it's easy to get caught up in the daily needs of your business when completing tasks. However, services also need to remember that taking a step back every once in a while and examining how a service is run is vital to a business. Specifically, one…
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Preparing for a document scanning project
For paper-heavy offices interested in becoming a digital office, document scanning services can efficiently scan documents so businesses don’t have to, making the transition quick and easy. But before this happens here are some tips to make the document scanning and storage process even faster. Purge This one seems obvious, but it’s necessary – go…
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New postal regulations for the Intelligent Mail barcode announced
The Intelligent Mail barcode was created by the U.S. Postal Service to replace the formerly used Postnet and Planet Code barcodes, using data to help the USPS sort and track mail more efficiently. With this barcode, those that sent letters and packages can also have more transparency regarding their mail. Compared to past barcodes, the…
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Storage issues force businesses to go paperless
Many businesses know the advantages of going paperless – increased efficiency, lower printing and paper costs, more environmentally friendly. But for offices overflowing in paper, how do you get there? In Murphysboro, Illinois, this is exactly what’s keeping the Jackson County Courthouse from going paperless. Currently, paper files from the 1970s are taking up space, including…
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Trucking industry relies on digital documents
Last year, we wrote about a veterinary that relies on paperless documents to keep her practice mobile. This is not just used by traveling medical offices, but by all mobile businesses, such as the trucking industry, can benefit from digital documents as well. For truck drivers carrying freight, a paper bill is now becoming a thing of…
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Landlords: 1099 or not to 1099?
Now that the deadline for those filing their taxes electronically is approaching – those filling on paper should have already mailed the forms in by now – employees may be sitting down to complete the dreaded files. But for freelancers and contractors, as well as those that employ them, this is often a bit more complicated.…
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Paperless office helps doctor meet special needs patients
One of the reasons the medical industry is requiring healthcare facilities to use electronic medical records is because of the ability to meet the needs of patients who don't speak the native language or have hearing or vision problems. With documents and files, translating information to another language or form of communication is much easier…