Digitising a Regional Bank’s Enterprise Document Archive

Banking & Financial Services

Digitising a Regional Bank’s Enterprise Document Archive

How Papyrus Intelligent EDMS turned a million-document paper archive into a searchable, governed enterprise knowledge base — without disrupting daily banking operations.

01 BUSINESS CHALLENGE

A million-document backlog, and no way to search it

The bank held more than a million historical customer files, account opening documents and transaction records — largely on paper, with some scanned images stored in disconnected folders. Retrieving a single file for a customer query, audit request or compliance check could take hours, and there was no reliable, searchable record of what existed or where.

  • Manual retrieval taking hours per request
  • No searchable index across the archive
  • Compliance and audit exposure from missing records
02 FABTECH TRANSFORMATION

From paper archive to enterprise knowledge base

Fabtech deployed Papyrus Intelligent EDMS with high-speed scanning, AI-powered OCR, automatic classification and metadata extraction, turning the physical archive into a fully searchable digital repository. Staff now search for the knowledge they need rather than searching through folders and boxes.

  • High-volume scanning & intelligent indexing
  • AI classification, auto-tagging & semantic search
  • Human-in-the-loop verification for accuracy
03 ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Papyrus, Connected to the Bank’s Technology Ecosystem

Papyrus Intelligent EDMSEnterprise Document Repository
Enterprise Integration Layer
Core Banking System
Active Directory
Microsoft 365
Power BI
REST APIs
Microsoft Azure
Email
Mobile Access
04 TECHNOLOGIES USED

Built on Proven Enterprise Technology

Papyrus Intelligent EDMS AI-Powered OCR Automatic Classification Semantic Search Microsoft Azure REST APIs Core Banking Integration
05 BUSINESS OUTCOMES

From Hours of Searching to Seconds of Retrieval

Searchable Enterprise Archive

A million-document backlog became instantly searchable instead of physically stored and unindexed.

Faster Record Retrieval

Customer and compliance requests that took hours now take minutes.

Stronger Audit Trail

Every document access and change is logged, supporting regulatory audits.

06 TRANSFORMATION TIMELINE

Our Consulting Methodology

01

Business Challenge

02

Discovery Workshop

03

Business Analysis

04

Solution Design

05

Papyrus Implementation

06

Scanning & Migration

07

Integration

08

Training

09

Go Live

10

Continuous Optimisation

11

Business Outcomes

07 RELATED SOLUTIONS & INDUSTRIES

Explore the Broader Fabtech Ecosystem

Related Solutions

Related Industries

08 RELATED TRANSFORMATION STORIES

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