Case Study 5. The Firm of the Future

Technology Covered in This Chapter: Converting paper to PDF by scanning, optical character recognition (OCR), setting up Acrobat trusted identities, Adobe’s Certified Document Services (CDS), collaborating on PDF documents

What would you say about a firm that scans its incoming mail and converts it to searchable PDFs? Is this the firm of the future or an aberration of the digital age? This chapter introduces you to Bell Alliance, a paperless firm from its inception, and shows you the techniques it uses to maintain paperless purity.

More important, you will meet Ron Usher, a man who has been thinking about the paperless office for over 20 years. Even if your paperless goals are more modest, you will learn ...

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