Farewell to the mountain of paper: Almost half of the population digitizes documents

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Mail from the registry office, new bills or important bank documents: almost every second person now stores such documents digitally . This is the result of a representative survey conducted by the digital association Bitkom among 1,004 people aged 16 and over. According to the survey, 47 percent of Germans scan or photograph some of the paper documents they want to keep - 19 percent of them do this regularly, 28 percent every now and then. The proportion of those who digitize their documents has increased enormously in recent years. In 2017, 73 percent of respondents said they had never scanned or photographed paper documents. Now only 48 percent said this.

Germans particularly often digitize their morocco gambling data documents using photos (69 percent) and printers or scanners (61 percent). Only around a quarter (28 percent) use special apps for this. The number of file folders with invoices, contracts, etc. in German households is still correspondingly high: every citizen has an average of 7.7 folders. 42 percent of respondents said they had four to five folders at home, while 28 percent said they had six to nine folders. 22 percent even have ten or more file folders at home.

"Meter-long shelves with thick files will soon be a thing of the past," says Nils Britze, head of digital business processes at Bitkom . "With modern scanners and innovative apps, everyone can now easily archive and organize documents and thus continue to use them digitally . Anyone who regularly digitizes their documents and stores them in a secure cloud is also on the safe side if the paper documents are destroyed by water or fire damage."