Archive is the long-term storage of data or images. Archiving is generally accomplished on some form of magnetic media; such as disk or tape, or optical media; such as Writable CD.

Bates Numbering or Bates Stamping is used in the legal, medical, and business fields to sequentially number or date/time-mark images or documents as they are scanned or processed. Bates numbering is an organizational method mainly used to identify legal documents.

Client-Server Based System is a system that stores electronic documents on one computer-a server, while making those documents available to other computers-clients, via a network.

Digital Documents are documents that are stored on a computer. The documents may have been created on a computer, as with word-processing files and spreadsheets, or they may have been converted into digital documents by means of document imaging. Digital documents are also referred to as electronic documents.

Digital Image is an image composed of pixels

Document is a broadly used term that refers to word-processing files, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, database tables, faxes, business forms, images, or any other collection of organized data. Documents are also referred to as 'records.

Document Imaging is the process by which print and film documents are fed into a scanner and converted into electronic documents.

Document Retrieval is the process by which you can search and 'retrieve' an archived document from a database. This is done by entering information in a database query screen.

DPI (Dots Per Inch) is the measurement of resolution of a printer or monitor based on dot density.

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