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| | Overview of Document Management Technology - UDT Occasional Paper #2 |
 | | Document management is the automated control of electronic documents -- page images, spreadsheets, word processing documents, and complex, compound documents—through their entire life cycle within an organization, from initial creation to final archiving. |
 | | Document management allows organizations to exert greater control over the production, storage, and distribution of documents, yielding greater efficiencies in the ability to reuse information, to control a document through a workflow process, and to reduce product cycle times. |
 | | The resulting compound documents can be delivered as one of two types: 1) pre-specified documents that are constructed in the same way each time; or 2) virtual documents that are assembled for a specific purpose, that exist temporarily, and which may change from one viewing to another. |
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