electronic documents
Paperless stored information
Electronic documents are files created, stored, and viewed on computers or other digital devices rather than on paper.
The term covers word processing files, PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, and any other digital format containing text, images, or data.
In legal and business contexts, electronic documents have largely replaced paper records: The court accepted electronic documents as evidence.
They can be searched, copied, and transmitted instantly—advantages that have made them the default form of documentation in most settings.
- PDFFixed-layout document format
- Microsoft WordText document application
- cloud backupData stored on distant servers
- digital signatureEncrypted verification of sender
- copyIdentical reproduction made
Adobe Acrobat · text · paste · drag and drop · right click · attach · search · USB drive · send · file · version control · save · link · e-signature · share · page · read only · type
- e-discoveryESI, production, processing, collection, predictive coding
- web navigationhyperlinks, links, menus, breadcrumbs, sitemaps
electronic documentshard copies
Physical printed documents
printed matter · parchment · paper trail · printed materials · manuscripts
electronic documentscarbon copies
Identical reproductions of documents
ledgers · mimeographs · stone tablets · scrolls · clay tablets
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