1. A method comprising the steps of: making a reservation for a digital image of a paper-based document; automatically capturing metadata associated with the paper-based document by scraping data from the computer screen; associating a pre-identified document identifier with the reservation and the metadata; affixing a label to the paper-based document, the label containing the pre-identified document identifier; creating a digital image of the paper-based document; and linking the digital image of the paper-based document with the metadata that was captured prior to the creation of the digital image of the paper-based document, using the pre-identified document identifier.