What Does Soft Copy Mean?
A soft copy of a document is a digital copy, one that doesn’t exist in physical form or on paper, but is instead stored as binary or machine language in any device or hardware setup. Soft copies of documents are managed much differently than the traditional hard copies that predated the rapid advance of digital media in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Techopedia Explains Soft Copy
The general idea of document “soft copies” raises many issues regarding the creation, storage, maintenance and care of documents. Many soft copies have been made of extremely old documents predating technology, which are handled much differently than the originals. Companies also create radically different plans for soft copy archiving, documentation and retrieval than they do for any documents that must be kept on paper or in “hard copies.”
