Services / Digitization
Statement of Need:
- Cumbersome process of storage and manual retrieval
- Storage is bulky and heavy while space is at a premium
- Special efforts to maintain and protect the paper document archives
- Difficult to transfer and share common documents across locations
- With multiple copies existing across locations, it is complex to take care of any changes
- Higher cost of maintenance, replenishment, revision and transfer
- Spoilage due to sea weather, fire or other events
- Difficult to locate a missing/misplaced document
Features of Digitization of Drawings and Manuals:
- Compact storage and archiving
- Less manual effort for storage and retrieval
- Computerized indexing and search facility
- Easy sharing and transfer of documents across offices
- Collaborative working and co-ordination possible
- Easy change management
- Low cost maintenance, replenishment and revision
- Improving training ability of new employees
- Centralized remote repository of documents takes away the problem of paper spoilage
- Cost effective option to paper documents
- Wise investment
- Better and faster service across the organization

