Reducing the volume of paper in an organisation is one of the key ways of improving efficiency. Paper documents require manual processes, whereas electronic documents can enable business process to be automated, with staff released onto more added-value activities.

F4F can help your organisation reduce paper even if those who currently send it to you are unwilling or unable to do anything differently. Through the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques, F4F can deliver to you, from one paper document such as an Invoice, not only a digital image of that document but also the key data items in a structured file. The digital image you can store and access subsequently via desktop computers; the structured file can be processed by your back-office system.

Even the process of opening the envelopes, preparing for scanning and the scanning itself can be outsourced, with a PO Box bearing your company’s name set up so that the document senders are unaware of any changes in procedure.
The documents are delivered electronically to you by the same means as documents sent electronically from other trading partners, so you get to exploit your original investment in F4F as well. Click here for more details on how it works.