Marathon has been providing a document management service to companies throughout the UK for 25 years. Our success has been based on understanding our customers needs and providing a cost effective solution that exceeds their expectations.

• Does your company have a document management problem?

• Is your document archive accessible from anywhere in the world?

• Would you like a system with no complicated software to learn?

• Would you like to print, email or view an image almost instantly?

If you answer yes to any of these questions then we may be able to help.

Call us now on 023 8022 0481

At Marathon we offer a comprehensive document scanning service which encompasses all major formats such as TIFF, PDF, PDF searchable and OCR to Word format. We can also scan any size of document from a business card up A3. For document scanning or drawing scanning larger than A3 size please refer to our page on large format scanning.

For corporate clients or those looking for a more comprehensive document management solution, we offer a network ready document management/electronic filing system FilePlus.NET

Marathon provide document scanning, document management, document archiving, microfilm scanning, data entry and data conversion services such as OCR to Word format and searchable PDF. We also offer book scanning, drawing scanning and aperture card scanning. We supply document scanners, microfilm scanners and microfiche readers. More information on equipment can be found by visiting www.canon-scanners.co.uk

Contact us now on 023 8022 0481 and let us show you the benefits of using Marathon for your document scanning and document management requirements.

What is Document Management?

Document Management is the capture and management of documents within an organization. The term document management is used to imply the management of documents after they were scanned into the computer. Today, the term has become an umbrella under which document scanning and imaging, workflow, text retrieval and multimedia fall.

The trend toward designing information systems as document centric, where the document becomes the focus, not the application that created it, is expected to bring document management to the forefront of computing.

Typical systems involving document scanning have the user scan in the original paper document, and store the image of the document in the document management system. The image is often given a name containing the date and the user is often asked to type in additional "tags" in order to make finding the image easier. For instance, a user scanning in an invoice might want to tag it with "water, invoice, 1/1/2002".

Slightly more advanced document management systems also perform an OCR on the image, storing the text along with the image. Although most OCR systems are notoriously inaccurate, even a few correct words scanned off the page can eliminate the need for the user to type in their own tags.

Once the document is stored, it is typically retrieved using an application that is aware of the way the tags (or scanned text) and image are related. That way when you search for "invoice", opening the document will in fact open the original image.