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Although the mail server assets are moved off-site -- to reduce storage demands at the enterprise while still retaining messages for compliance purposes, said Iron Mountain -- end users can retrieve them through their Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes mail clients.

The boom in products and technologies at AIIM was backed up by a new report on the document capture market released Monday by Harvey Spencer Associates, a Long Island, N.Y.-based consulting firm that specializes in the content arena.

According to preliminary numbers from the report -- which will be published in June -- the document capture market grew by a healthy 7.4 percent in North America during 2003, and should increase by 9.9 percent this year.

"The reason we're scanning documents is changing from simple archiving to enabling business processes," said Harvey Spencer, the author of the report. "The technology advances in software that intelligently understands and interprets documents is set to revolutionize this aspect of the imaging business. By automatically identifying metadata, it dramatically cuts document capture costs."