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title: "PaperTrail: Document Management in South Africa"
description: "Digitise, OCR-scan and manage high-volume business docs in South Africa—cloud or on‑premise. Automate approvals, share securely and eSign."
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published_at: "2026-08-04T03:58:00.304Z"
updated_at: "2026-10-09T03:00:37.712Z"
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# PaperTrail: Document Management in South Africa

Digitise, OCR-scan and manage high-volume business docs in South Africa—cloud or on‑premise. Automate approvals, share securely and eSign.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Productivity & Workspace](/categories/productivity-workspace)
- [PaperTrail](/papertrail)

## Summary

Digitise, manage, and sign business documents securely

An enterprise content and document management platform for organisations to store, search, automate workflows, and securely share and sign business documents.

## Product details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://papertrail.co.za/ |
| Tagline | Digitise, manage, and sign business documents securely |
| Primary country | South Africa |
| Platforms | Web |
| Average rating |  |
| Published reviews | 0 |
| Verified listing | No |

## About the product

PaperTrail is a South African **enterprise content and document management** platform for organisations that need to digitise, store, organise, search, and securely share high volumes of business documents, with deployment options in the cloud or on-premise.

Key capabilities include:
- **Electronic Content Management (ECM)** for organising digital assets and enabling controlled access, collaboration, and remote content sharing.
- **Advanced document capture and OCR** for bulk and online capture, image enhancement, full-page or zonal **OCR**, form and barcode recognition, automated or manual page separation, and creation of fully **text-searchable scanned PDFs**.
- **Workflow automation** to route tasks and approvals across business units, with monitoring and visibility of processes.
- **Module-based solutions** for specific processes, including **LeaseHub** (lease document collection, credit checks, and lease signing), **PeopleHub** (employee lifecycle support from recruitment to onboarding with regulatory requirements), **CreditorsHub** (accounts payable and vendor invoice management), **TravelHub** (supplier invoice collection with OCR/RPA extraction for travel debtors collection), **Contract Management** (drafting, approvals, signing, renewals, addendums, access control, reporting and analytics), and **PaperTrail Sign** (electronic, legally compliant eSignatures).

Available on **Web**.

It primarily serves **B2B teams** such as property managers, finance and accounts payable departments, HR teams, legal and contract teams, travel operators, banks, manufacturers, and public-sector organisations.

The platform is notable in the South African market for long-running enterprise adoption across multiple sectors and for combining ECM, high-volume capture/OCR, and process automation in a single ecosystem operated by Egis Software.

## Features

- [Productivity & Workspace](/categories/productivity-workspace): Category
- [B2B](/tags/b2b): Product feature or technology
- [SaaS](/tags/saas): Product feature or technology
- [South Africa](/countries/south-africa): Market

## Related pages

- [Alternatives](/papertrail/alternatives)
- [Reviews](/papertrail/reviews)
- [Transparency](/papertrail/transparency)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/papertrail)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)