Document Management: Retrieval Issues

Document Retrieval
Documents are there to be retrieved when needed. If they are never going to be retrieved, it would be a meaningless exercise to keep them, wasting space, man hours and money.
You retrieve documents for personal, business or legal purposes:
• You might want to re-read an old story or letter, which you have stored in an organized or random manner along with many others. That would be a personal purpose.
• You might want to study the sales trends for a particular line of products you sell. You would then want to retrieve all the sales invoices for the relevant period and summarize the sales patterns of products in that line. This is a typical example of document retrieval with a business purpose.
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