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If you can’t go paperless office, at least go “paper-lite”. Dave Mitchell reviews four desktop scanners that will ease you along the way
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) that want organised offices and tidy workspaces need to ditch their filing cabinets and move to document digitisation. Going paperless, or even just “paper-lite”, is the way forward, and investing in a document scanner can reap many benefits, including reduced office space requirements, increased productivity and improved compliance with data protection rules.
With office rental costs rising all the time, businesses can save hard cash: once paper records have been scanned, they can be sent to a secure storage facility instead of occupying large swathes of valuable office floor space. Digitisation will improve workflow efficiencies and customer experiences too, as staff won’t need to waste time searching through filing cabinets looking for that crucial invoice or sales record.