9 Questions to Ask Yourself When Exploring a Capture Strategy

When it comes to capture solutions today, there seem to be an endless array of options to choose from. From simple capture solutions that provide basic scan and indexing capabilities, to solutions that are able to read machine or hand-printed data from forms, classify documents based on type, extract information, validate information against existing business applications, and lastly deliver data and images to a variety of back-end content repositories and business systems--for quick and easy search and retrieval.

As you can see, your options and their benefits are many-no matter what your strategic objectives are. This is whay it's important, when exploring enterprise capture solutions, to always take a step back and consider all of your business and operational requirements before determining which capture solutions are best for your business.

Some key questions to ask you when evaluating an enterprise capture solution may include:

• Does the capture platform support both high volume batch capture and branch office ad hoc capture environments?
• Does the capture solution address the high cost of document preparation?
• Will we be able to optimize the automated data capture so that the amount of manual data entry required is minimized?
• Will we be able to customize the solution to fit our business requirements versus changing our business processes to fit the technology?
• Will the solution allow us to easily connect into our applications and business processes.
• Will the application support the volume of paper that we expect to capture?
• How will I monitor my capture environment including the other applications it interacts with?
• Will we be able to leverage this capture solution across many different business processes?
• Can the vendor provide us with a complete, end-to-end solution?

PaperFree can work with you to analyze your existing business requirements and help you choose, plan, and implement the right solutions to meet all your data capture and content management needs, end-to-end. Click here or dial 1-888-726-7730 to speak with a PaperFree consultant today to learn more about the tools and technology that are available to help streamline your business.