Is the Document Assistant faster than using a Dictaphone, notepad and office secretary?
The Document Assistant offers many advantages over manual methods of data capture. It enables paperless electronic straight through document processing and so helps to speed up the whole data capture and documentation process. The software does not require anyone to type up the details in an office because it does the typing automatically. Work can be checked and edited on site ensuring that the details fully described and accurate. A Dictaphone does enable rapid data entry but is much slower for checking and editing any mistakes because you have to listen or recreate your recordings. A Dictaphone can’t help you to create the actual document. Information is recorded as XML, suitable for putting into databases which can be used to manage and sort the data for various data analysis or publishing tasks.
