LaserFiche
The document management platform we resell and support in Louisiana — the capture, workflow, distribution and integration modules behind most of our installations.
Recommended Resources
The short shelf of links we actually use — records references and certification programs for professionals, plus a few off-topic favorites our clients keep asking about.
Why we keep a reading list
Two decades of scanning have given us strong opinions about where a records professional should actually read — and a few links we send clients more often than we would like to admit.
Most of it is records business, as you would expect: the platform we resell, the state archives, the trade groups we exhibit with and the certification that keeps our scanning staff sharp. The last section is different — the links clients ask for when a project turns personal, from insurance files to family collections.
For records professionals
The references we use ourselves, and the ones we point a new records officer toward first.
Louisiana State Archives
Primary source for state records schedules and retention guidance — the first place we send a records officer who is building a retention program from scratch.
GFOA
The global association of local government finance officers we meet at trade shows every spring. Their research on records retention and document imaging is worth the read.
CDIA
The document imaging certification our scanning staff carries. A useful reference for checking the credentials of any scanning vendor you are considering.
U.S. National Archives
Federal records schedules and transfer guidance — the benchmark we reference whenever a client asks how long they really have to keep a file.
How we choose these
Three tests: we use it ourselves, we can answer for it, and it is still maintained. If a link stops passing all three, it comes off the list.
Around the desk
Not everything we scan is a minute book. A collector client in Baton Rouge recently had us image the complete archive for a forty-piece watch collection — certificates of authenticity, invoices and decades of service records — so his insurance policy finally matched what was actually in the safe.
The question that kept coming up was the same one: which piece is the one being insured, and how does he know? His rule is simple — the genuine watches stay in the safe, and the everyday wear is a replica. Before the policy was written he worked through their clone watches guides at clonewatches.io so he knew exactly what each piece was, and for the Rolexes in the collection he started on the Rolex Super Clone Watches page, which is the one we end up sending most people to first.
We keep this list short on purpose. If you have a page you think belongs here — records or otherwise — send it to info@imagetekoflouisiana.com with a sentence on why.
Have records that need a home?
Call 225-273-3969 or tell us about your files — we'll map the fastest route from paper to searchable digital records.