Notes from the people who build and run SmartImage: technology, compliance, operations, and the occasional war story from the scanning room.
Every document-software vendor now says "agentic". Here is what the word actually means, where it earns its keep in document work, and what to evaluate instead of the label.
By Gerrit van Dyk · 2026-07-20 read the article →
A plain-English guide to intelligent document processing: how it captures, reads and extracts data from business documents, why it matters, and where it pays off.
By Gerrit van Dyk · 2026-07-18 read the article →
Every scanning project starts with one number, and most people guess it wrong. Here is how to size the job from what you can already see: the files, the boxes and the cabinets, before a single lid is lifted.
By Johann Swanepoel · 2026-07-17 read the article →
Retention schedules, access logs and the paper nobody remembers. What inspection readiness looks like in practice.
By Gerrit van Dyk · 2026-06-24 read the article →
The honest arithmetic: licences, setup, and the hours your team stops spending on triage.
By Johann Swanepoel · 2026-06-17 read the article →Fifteen minutes on our sample set, or bring your own worst documents and watch them become data.