According to the present invention, an automatic archiving system that makes document archiving largely transparent to the user. In one embodiment, documents scanned in or printed during the course of office equipment operation are automatically archived. For example, an office local area network (LAN)...http://www.google.com/patents/US7684068?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7684068 - Method and system for automatically and transparently archiving documents and document meta data