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Throughout the year, we host Lunch ‘n Learns where you can become familiar with our products and services over a tasty lunch, care of E-BizDocs. We only ask that you come ready to learn what good records management is and what it can do for your company.

Learn about Electronic Records Management

It’s not about using email, spreadsheets or printing forms on-demand. It’s about how you file them once you have created them. It’s about scanning your paper for fast access and improved workflow. It’s about not worrying about the security of your documents.

• See a variety of Kodak scanners in action
• Watch Capture Pro in the imaging process
• Experience Cabinet NG’s file versioning
• Find out how to manage born-digital files
• Follow Cabinet NG’s Audit, Control and Workflow path

Secret cabinet records lost in
Ottawa parking lot for a month

OTTAWA—Secret cabinet records and sensitive legal briefs were lost for more than a month in a downtown parking arcade, newly disclosed documents show.

The confidential material from Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s briefing book was stolen from the locked car of a senior government official after a “breach of standard procedure.”

The incident, never made public, occurred soon after 2008 election, when Kenney was appointed to the post.

Background gradient removal
with Perfect Page

The features in Kodak’s Perfect Page bridge all the gaps between the problems that traditional print design cause in digitizing your paper documents. In this example, we’ll see a document that has some background flourishes that look nice on paper, but create readability problems in the scanned image.

That’s a full color scan, which renders the text fairly readable. Still, a piece of paper that you can hold in your hand is even better to look at, because that’s what we’re all used to. Overall, this isn’t a bad conversion, however in terms of file size, color takes up a lot more space. If your project calls for bi-tonal scans, you may end up with an image like the one below, if you don’t have Perfect Page technology integrated.

FBI destroyed thousands of
UFO reports, 1949 memo reveals

Documents reveal that the FBI destroyed thousands of UFO-related reports in accordance with a policy outlined in a memo sent on 16 August 1949 to J Edgar Hoover, the director of the bureau.

The note, sent by an unnamed FBI agent in San Antonio, Texas, states that the office destroyed UFO reports on the grounds that they arrived “in great numbers” and contained “nothing of FBI interest”.

Considering the scope of data mining going on with Facebook, Google, and other websites, it’s interesting to know that at one point there was even such a thing as uninteresting information.