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A Document Management System typically includes the following components: Imaging, the scanning of paper documents; Indexing of documents using appropriate tags or keywords; Storage of electronic versions of the documents in a database, typically in image form, but possibly including an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) version to allow for search of document text; Conversion of documents from one electronic format to another (e.g. Microsoft Word to PDF); Retrieval, typically via simple, web-based lookup tools; and if necessary, Destruction, should secure purging of documents prove necessary.