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Article: Document Processing
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- Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed.
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DOCUMENT PROCESSING
A document is any written, printed, or electronically prepared business communication that conveys information. In the information age, documents are essential products that are becoming larger and more complex. Document processing involves the equipment, software, and procedures for creating, formatting, editing, researching, retrieving, storing, and mailing documents.
HISTORY OF DOCUMENT PREPARATION
The advent of a writing system coincided with the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to agrarian encampments where it became necessary to count one's property
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whether it was parcels of land, animals, or measures of grain
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or to transfer that property ...