Startup Idea: Digital Document Management System for Legal Offices

Startup idea to develop a software solution that scans, uploads and digitizes paper files, converting them into fillable documents for legal aid offices. The system should also embed capabilities for sending and receiving files electronically to accelerate administrative procedures and reduce paper usage.

I am currently a Paralegal at a legal aid office that has about 25 employees. We handle thousands of cases a year between staff members. We are constantly opening and closing files, sending letters, writing memo and case descriptions to add to the physical file.

As a result of having so many clients and file, our office uses an extreme amount of paper each year. Most of the documents that we put on paper could be digitized, thus making what we do simpler and more efficient.

If there were a program that could scan our paper files, upload them to a PC and turn them into fillable documents, I think we could save both time and money. We could also stop wasting so much paper. Instead of filling out a leave request for vacation time, printing it out and then waiting 2 weeks for the manager to approve it, we could fill it on and send it by email, thus expediting the process.

I believe our organization as a whole would be willing to spend somewhere in the thousands on this program as we have multiple offices. We could use adobe, but that process seems like a headache.