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Document imaging

Hello there. Document imaging is like taking a picture of a piece of paper so you don't have to keep the paper. It's like when mommy takes a picture of you with her phone so she can look at it later. But instead of taking a picture of you, it's taking a picture of a page of important information.

Now, when the grownups take a picture of a page, they don't just save it on their phone like mommy does. They save it on a computer so they can access it anytime they need it. They can also share it with other grownups who need to see it.

And the cool thing about document imaging is that you can make the words on the page searchable. That means you can type a word into the computer and it will show you all the pages that have that word on it. It's like magic!

So document imaging is just like taking a picture of a page, but you can save it on a computer and make the words searchable. It helps grownups keep important information safe and easy to find.
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