Image Capture Software: Applications that facilitate the conversion of paper documents to electronic images. Originally designed to facilitate batch processing, capture software is now evolving to accomodate smaller volumes in Web capture and front-office applications.

ECM: Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization's unstructured information, wherever that information exists.

OCR/ICR– These processes involve converting the text on document images to text that can recognized by a computer application. Optical and Intelligent Character Recognition uses computer algorithms to read the printed text on a document image and converts that text to ASCII, XML, or some other sort of electronically usable language.