When you are considering to buy a software to introducing electronic filing system in your organisations , you should know the difference between document Management and document imaging software.

A document management software offers tools to manage files digitally , whereas document imaging software offers to turn paper records into electronic files.

Document management software works better for capturing email , web content or other electronic documents while for document imaging you need hardware and software to scan and index paper.

Both system needs archiving,retrival, security, tracking, and searching.

Good news is that most software avaliable now offers both document imaging and document management tools in same system.