With all this talk about electronic mortgages and paperless processing, imaging becomes very significant. In an ideal world the mortgage process would start as data and remain data throughout, but this isn't an ideal world and paper documents like W2s will likely be around for some time to come.

As a result, adopting an imagining solution is crucial because if a lending institution wants to become more efficient in this shrinking market, going electronic is one sound method. However, to go electronic the lender has to adopt a strategy to convert the paper to data or at least an image. When going down this pather, there are two clear choices.