Whether you are moving your office to a new location, or you are simply remodeling, you will likely have to transport many important items. As you begin your move, you will notice that the most difficult assets to transport are your paper documents. This is because in addition to carefully transporting them from point A to point B, you need to make sure that they remain organized. Fortunately, this doesn't have to be as difficult as you might imagine. Follow the following three office moving tips to de-clutter your documents before you start moving.

A paperless office improves document security, saves money and makes your team much more efficient. These facts are quickly becoming common knowledge. But what other benefits can you reap from getting rid of your office's paper documents in exchange for digital files? Let's take a look at some of the unexpected benefits that a paperless office will provide:

Even if your office is already paperless, you will still have to deal with an occasional influx of paper documents. The best way to manage these is to immediately convert them into digital files so that they can quickly be integrated into your paperless office system. In order to do so, you’ll need to scan them. Improperly scanning your paper documents, however, will exacerbate the length of the process and possibly harm the quality of the scans. That’s why it’s essential to have a system in place to effectively convert your documents. Here is how to scan documents properly for best results:

Using digital medical documents – instead of paper – is absolutely the best course of action for all medical organizations. This is because it saves money, streamlines document accessibility and improves document security. This means not only creating digital documents for the future, but also converting your current paper documents to digital files. But, like all medical organizations, yours has mounds of paperwork that needs to be converted, so how should you go about making the switch? The best way to go about medical document scanning is to hire a professional service - and here is why:

Going paperless is a must for your office for two important reasons: you will save a lot of money and make your office run much more efficiently. In order to get the most out of a paper-free office space, you need to have a set of best practices in place to streamline the process. That being said, here are six paperless office best practices that you need to implement as soon as you have converted from paper to digital documents:

Managing documents is not at the top of an entrepreneur’s favourite activity list. Maintaining original records has long been a dilemma for companies of any size. In the past, businesses that generated a high number of transactions were inundated with paper in the form of invoices, receipts, reports, correspondence and tax returns. Papers were shuffled from desks, cash registers and retail counters into banks of filing cabinets and eventually into boxes in some sort of storage area. As time passed and the business grew, the problem of document storage and retrieval became more and more acute. Space that should be used to generate income became dead space. Revenues that could be reinvested were used to pay for more and more storage.

Document security has long been a concern of organizations. Regardless of format or whether analog or digital, business records, sensitive data and proprietary information have needed to be secured in order to protect the interests of the business. As the need for such security has expanded with the introduction of the digital age, more sophisticated document security management systems have been developed, boasting more complex methods of securely storing and retaining myriad business documents.

So your organization has made the decision to scan your paper files, turning those stale documents into useful digital content. You've decided to outsource the bulk scanning of your documents, but you have a lot questions before you're ready to send your files out. Questions such as:

Are you looking to bring more digital content to your patrons in 2014? Are you looking for solutions that are easy to use and will cut down on time spent by staff re-training users? If that's the case, here are three digital/scanning solutions your library may want to consider.

Every month our document scanning team converts over 5 million paper files into useful digital images. For us, document scanning doesn't mean feeding a handful of sheets through a multi-function scanner, it means high volume, high security and high accuracy conversion so you can focus on your core business activities.