Document imaging requires that you scan a paper document and convert it into a digital artifact that can be processed electronically. Office document imaging simply refers to the process of digitizing (scanning) paper documents within an office environment to be shared using document imaging software, an enterprise document management tool, or document imaging management software.
Other popular terms in this category include ocr or optical character recognition, document management, content management which refers to the text or images within the scanned document, document software and document scanner, and imaging software.