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auxiliary operation
activity supplementary to the primary operations of a document (4.41) management system EXAMPLES: Film cleanin […]
authenticity
State in which false entry, rewriting, erasure, and confusion are prevented for records created with legitimat […]
authentic record
record that can be proven a) to be what it purports to be, b) to have been created or sent by the person purpo […]
availability
Degree or ability that a system can operate continuously. A system with high availability is called a High Ava […]
automatic document feeder
powered device to feed microforms, films or paper into a scanner (4.124) for capture NOTE: It can also positio […]
automatic character recognition
technology using special systems, such as OCR (4.100) or ICR (4.80), to identify human-readable characters, us […]
aberration
defect in a lens or mirror that produces distortions in an image (4.67) EXAMPLES Astigmatism, chromatic aberra […]