OCR/ICR– These processes involve converting the text on document images to text that can recognized by a computer application. Optical and Intelligent Character Recognition uses computer algorithms to read the printed text on a document image and converts that text to ASCII, XML, or some other sort of electronically usable language.

ECM: Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization's unstructured information, wherever that information exists.

Color management: Color scanners are now available for approximately the same price as black-and-white and grayscale ones. Advanced layering technology such as MRC (mixed raster content) helps create color files that are about the same size as black and white ones.