Digitize paper documents and use electronic document management systems to view and edit them and digital signatures to sign them for a fully paper-free office experience.
Affordable Document Management
Monday, 14 November 2022
SimpleIndex® is a great solution for small businesses and departments that need a quick and affordable way to scan, organize and view documents. SimpleIndex provides a wide variety of retrieval options, many of which require no special software to find and view documents. The most basic solution uses Windows folders and filenames to organize and
No Comments
Is it possible to search for and retrieve documents with Windows desktop search?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Searchable PDF reference. Windows Search works great with SimpleIndex because all index data can be saved to the folder and file names as well as the file properties, and OCR text can be saved to hidden layers in PDF files. Windows Search will read all of these elements
- Published in Database & Retrieval, Export, Office PDF Text Processing
Is the document Search/Retrieval and View functions available in SimpleIndex or available only with the SimpleSearch add-on module?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete SimpleSearch reference. All of the search functions can be used with any SimpleIndex license. SimpleSearch is only needed to enable searching from other workstations.
- Published in Database & Retrieval, Licensing & Installation
I have a scanner/copier that creates PDF and TIFF files and saves them to my file server. Can I use SimpleIndex to create a searchable CD/DVD from these files?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Wizard Mode reference. This feature is included in SimpleIndex at no additional cost and is called the Media Wizard. The Media Wizard is located in the “Send” file menu and is called Media Wizard. It allows you to burn your images, indexes, a database and a free SimpleSearch
- Published in Database & Retrieval, Import
Is it possible to restrict user access to certain documents in Retrieval Mode?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Database Mode reference. If the database you use to store index information has security access features, you can use these to manage access to documents with SimpleIndex retrieval mode. In your database, create user accounts and groups and assign them the appropriate permissions to records in your document
- Published in Database & Retrieval
How do you configure full text searching in Retrieval mode?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Database Settings reference. On the Database tab there dropdown in the lower portion of the panel for Full Text OCR Field. Put the name of the field that will store the full-text data there. This must be configured both for Insert and Retrieval mode configurations. The database field
- Published in Database & Retrieval, OCR
Organize Office Documents with Text Parsing
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
This video shows the Sort My Documents sample job included with the SimpleIndex trial download. It shows how you can organize office documents automatically by parsing the file’s text for relevant metadata and keywords. You can then use those keywords to tag documents with metadata and create standardized folders and filenames. First we sort Word
Searching and Viewing Documents
Wednesday, 04 October 2017
If you have not yet decided on a plan for how to organize your electronic documents for later retrieval, you should take some time to consider the possible options. There are several ways to search and view documents processed with SimpleIndex® Use SimpleSearch to use keyword searches to find and view indexed documents Use SimpleView

