EDM (Electronic Document Management)
EDM (Electronic Document Management) is the management of different kinds of documents in an enterprise using computer
programs and storage. An EDM system allows an enterprise and its users to create a document or
capture a hard copy in electronic form, store, edit, print, process, and otherwise manage documents
in image, video, and audio, as well as in text form. An EDM system usually provides a
single view of multiple databases and may include scanners for document capture, printers for
creating hard copy, storage devices such as redundant array of independent disks systems, and
computer server and server programs
for managing the databases that contains the documents.
EDM may be needed in enterprises that capture and store a large number of documents such as
invoices, sales orders, photographs, phone interviews, or video newsclips. EDM may be combined with
or integrated into other applications. It may be combined with a workflow management approach.
Capture may include document imaging
and optical character recognition (OCR).
EDM also stands for enterprise
document management, engineering data
management and electrical discharge
machine
Contributor(s): Toor Neils
This was last updated in September 2005
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