Windsor, Conn a town of 28000 had t...

Windsor, Conn a town of 28000 had the same paper puzzles many municipalities face. Stacks of documents piled forward people's desks and town workers searched for minutes from long-forgotten council meetings. As lengthy as all those minutes, legal opinions, and other official documents were in succession paper, there was always the possibility of them being misplaced or damaged.

on the other hand recently, Windsor entered its paper-based documents into a computer When it decided to undertake this cast the town did not hire an expensive outside consultant or hire extra workers, and no single in kind worked overtime, yet the proces took les than six month

Windsor purchased a ScanJet IIcx from Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, Calif., to transmute its documents directly from paper into computer files.

"Some of these documents were comely old," says Gary Dowgewicz, a member of the town's information services team. "Now we can access those documents without