Scanned documents are acceptable in almost all cases these days by Government Agencies such as the Inland Revenue and Courts of Law. Guidelines such as the British Standard PD0008 have allowed this. The DataSave bureau system has been specifically designed to include facilities that assist a company’s compliance to PD0008: 1999, Legal Admissibility and Evidential Weight of Information Stored Electronically.

Here are a list of frequently asked questions about document archiving and document scanning:

1. What are the benefits of document scanning and having my paper documents stored as electronic images? Answer
2. How many of my paper documents will fit on to a CD? Answer
3. After scanning do what happens to the original paper documents? Answer
4. Is document scanning and archiving legally acceptable in a court of law? Answer
5. What if my CD gets damaged and will no longer work? Answer
6. What format will the scanned images be in? Answer
7. My company already has a system setup that allows users to view electronic documents on our network, can we use this same system? Answer
8. I have 1000's of original engineering drawings that are getting damaged and old, can i access these in a package such as CAD where my more recent drawings are? Answer