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Edge Enhancement A digital processing filter that makes lines and characters in an image appear sharper, making them easier to read or understand.

eDocument An electronic document. Such documents might have been converted from paper to a digital format, or originally created in a digital format.

Electronic Data Capture An Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system is a computerized system designed for the collection of data in electronic format. Typically, EDC systems provide 1) a graphical user interface component for data entry, 2) a validation component to check user data, and 3) a reporting tool for analysis of the collected data.

Element The rectangular black bars, or spaces between the bars, that make up a bar code.

Endorser A scanner attachment that prints a text string on a page as it is scanned. Sometimes called an imprinter.

Endorser String A text string mechanically printed on a page as it is scanned. See annotation.

Engine Run-time software that enables the functionality integrated into an application through the use of a toolkit.

Enterprise Content Management Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is the strategies, methods and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools allow the management of an enterprise level organization's information.

Enterprise content management systems combine a wide variety of technologies and components, some of which can also be used as stand-alone systems without being incorporated into an enterprise-wide system.
The five Enterprise Content Management components and technologies
The ECM model were first defined by AIIM as follows:

capture

manage

store

preserve

deliver

The model includes in the "Manage" category five traditional application areas:

document management (DM),

collaboration (or collaborative software, groupware),

web content management (WCM) (including web portals),

records management (RM) (archive and filing management systems on long-term storage media), and

workflow/business process management (BPM).

These "Manage" components connect capture, store, deliver and preserve and can be used in combination or separately. While document management, web content management, collaboration, workflow and business process management are more for the dynamic part of the life cycle of information, records management takes care of information which will no longer be changed. The utilization of the information is paramount throughout, whether through independent clients of the ECM system components, or by enabling existing applications that access the functionality of ECM services and the stored information. The integration of existing technologies makes it clear that enterprise content management is not a new product category, but an integrative force.

Glossary compiled from a variety of sources, including Kofax, MS Tech Net and Wikipedia.

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Edge Enhancement	A digital processing filter that makes lines and characters in an image appear sharper, making them easier to read or understand.
eDocument	An electronic document. Such documents might have been converted from paper to a digital format, or originally created in a digital format.
Electronic Data Capture	An Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system is a computerized system designed for the collection of data in electronic format. Typically, EDC systems provide 1) a graphical user interface component for data entry, 2) a validation component to check user data, and 3) a reporting tool for analysis of the collected data.
Element	The rectangular black bars, or spaces between the bars, that make up a bar code.
Endorser	A scanner attachment that prints a text string on a page as it is scanned. Sometimes called an imprinter.
Endorser String	A text string mechanically printed on a page as it is scanned. See annotation.
Engine	Run-time software that enables the functionality integrated into an application through the use of a toolkit.
Enterprise Content Management	Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is the strategies, methods and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools allow the management of an enterprise level organization's information. Enterprise content management systems combine a wide variety of technologies and components, some of which can also be used as stand-alone systems without being incorporated into an enterprise-wide system. The five Enterprise Content Management components and technologies The ECM model were first defined by AIIM as follows: capture manage store preserve deliver The model includes in the "Manage" category five traditional application areas: document management (DM), collaboration (or collaborative software, groupware), web content management (WCM) (including web portals), records management (RM) (archive and filing management systems on long-term storage media), and workflow/business process management (BPM). These "Manage" components connect capture, store, deliver and preserve and can be used in combination or separately. While document management, web content management, collaboration, workflow and business process management are more for the dynamic part of the life cycle of information, records management takes care of information which will no longer be changed. The utilization of the information is paramount throughout, whether through independent clients of the ECM system components, or by enabling existing applications that access the functionality of ECM services and the stored information. The integration of existing technologies makes it clear that enterprise content management is not a new product category, but an integrative force.