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Document
A digital (written, drawn, or recorded) representation of information
In Next® we store and process digital documents in their widest form.
- A scanned piece of paper
- A Word™ document
- An Outlook™email
- An XML invoice
- A txt file
- A construction drawing
- A photographed image
- A recorded conversation
- A video
... or any combination of the above.
In Next® a document is a rather complex structure. It consists of multiple pieces of content (individual files or attachments), each of them in one or more representations (e.g. Word™, PDF, and png format). In addition to metadata describing each individual file, and the document as a whole. The entire document may even have several revisions if it has changed over time.
A document is much more than just a file
When documents become even more complex than this - i.e. a complete brochure with images, text, layout, and fonts - we call them Compound documents.