An Integrated DocmnentManagement System

All activities in an organisation require or produce information. Therefore, a document is not only the main information carrier but also the central aid for the integration of office functions I 1 I . The office of the future will be characterized by new fundamental tendencies which lie not only in a more comprehensive possibility for information interchange but also in an altered processing of the information 131. As a part of communication, documents play the central role in todays office domain. A document can be described as a structured amount of text that can be interchanged between an originator and a receiver 121. A given document is characterized by its contents and its internal organization, where the organization is defined by a logical and a layout structure. The elements of the logical structure of a document are constituents like receiver. sender. author or signature. Layout objects are titles, text blocks, words or single characters.