Your Paper Records
Are Costing You
More Than You Know.
ABT converts your physical documents into secure, searchable digital assets — eliminating filing cabinets, slashing storage costs, accelerating retrieval, and keeping your organization compliant. Nationwide service, fast turnaround, and OCR accuracy you can rely on.
- Eliminate filing cabinet & storage costs
- Find any document in seconds, not minutes
- Access files from anywhere, any device
- Protect records from fire, flood & theft
- Meet HIPAA, SOX, and FINRA compliance
- Eliminate manual data entry errors
From Paper Stack to Searchable Digital Asset
ABT handles the entire process — from document preparation and high-resolution scanning through OCR processing, indexing, and secure digital delivery.
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Document Scanning & OCR Services from ABT
From single-department projects to enterprise-wide backfile conversions — ABT handles document digitization of any scale.
Built for Regulated Industries
ABT's document scanning process is designed to support the strictest regulatory requirements across healthcare, finance, legal, and government sectors.
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HIPAA
Healthcare Records Chain-of-custody documentation, secure handling, and encrypted delivery for patient records and medical files — fully HIPAA compliant.
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FINRA
Financial Documents Audit trails, indexed records, and tamper-evident digital files that meet FINRA document retention and retrieval requirements.
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SOX
Corporate & Accounting Records Digitized financial records with metadata, timestamps, and access controls — meeting Sarbanes-Oxley document management requirements.
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FERPA
Education Records Secure digitization and controlled access for student records, transcripts, and academic files in compliance with FERPA requirements.
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State
State & Local Regulations Familiar with state-specific document retention laws across all 50 states — ABT ensures your digitized records meet local compliance requirements.
- Full chain-of-custody documentation from pickup to delivery
- Secure, encrypted digital file delivery
- Controlled access — only authorized personnel handle your documents
- Confidential destruction of originals available upon request
- Audit-ready timestamps and access logs on all digital files
- NDA and data protection agreements available for sensitive projects
- Compatible with all major DMS and cloud storage platforms
- Disaster recovery — digital copies protect against physical loss
Document Scanning for Every Industry
ABT's document scanning services are trusted by organizations across healthcare, legal, education, financial services, and more.
What Clients Say About ABT Document Scanning
"ABT scanned 12 years of patient records for our practice. The process was seamless, HIPAA-compliant, and delivered on schedule. We reclaimed an entire storage room and our staff now finds any record in seconds. The ROI was immediate."
"We digitized 20 years of case files with ABT. The OCR indexing is exceptional — I can search any client name or case number and find the document in under five seconds. We also eliminated three filing cabinets and a costly offsite storage contract."
"ABT converted our entire HR archive — 15 years of employee files — into a perfectly organized digital system. What used to take days to pull for an audit now takes minutes. The investment paid for itself within the first year easily."
Document Scanning & OCR FAQ
Everything you need to know before getting started with ABT.
Document scanning converts physical paper records into digital image files. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) then processes those images to extract the actual text content, making documents fully searchable, editable, and indexable. Together, they transform paper archives into structured digital assets your team can search, share, and use instantly — from any device, anywhere.
Most organizations recoup their investment within 6 to 24 months. Key savings come from eliminating physical storage costs (including offsite storage fees of $0.50–$0.95 per box per month), reducing the 15–30 minutes employees spend locating paper documents, eliminating manual data entry costs, and reducing compliance risk exposure. Document digitization typically reduces document-related operational costs by 20–30%.
Yes. ABT maintains strict chain-of-custody procedures, controlled document handling, and encrypted digital delivery to support HIPAA, FINRA, SOX, FERPA, and other regulatory compliance requirements. We provide full documentation of the scanning process and can deliver NDA and data protection agreements for sensitive projects.
ABT scans virtually all document types — standard office documents, legal files, medical records, HR files, contracts, invoices, blueprints, photographs, and historical archives. We handle both day-forward scanning (new documents as they come in) and backfile conversion (digitizing existing paper archives). Documents in any condition are accepted.
ABT delivers files in your preferred format — searchable PDF, TIFF, or JPEG — or we can import directly into your existing document management system, cloud storage platform, or ERP. Files are fully indexed and organized according to your naming and metadata conventions, ready for immediate use.
Absolutely. ABT handles projects of any scale — from a single filing cabinet to multi-room archive conversions spanning years of records. Large projects are often structured in phases to manage logistics efficiently and minimize disruption to your team. We provide project management, scheduling, and progress updates throughout.
Ready to Go Digital?
Let's Build Your Plan.
Get a free assessment of your document environment. ABT will show you what your paper records are actually costing — and exactly how much you'll save by going digital.