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title: "Archiving source documents securely"
canonical_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-searchability/audit-and-ocr/architecture-and-concepts/archiving/"
md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-searchability/audit-and-ocr/architecture-and-concepts/archiving.md"
last_updated: "2026-06-09T10:22:07.607Z"
description: "Turn on archiving to auto-backup source documents, preserving originals and folder structure before processing for enhanced searchability."
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# Enable document archiving for safe backups

To avoid making inadvertent changes to the source document, it is recommended to turn Archiving on to maintain a backup of the source documents.

If Archiving is turned on, a copy of the file is created in a user specified archive location before any processing takes place. There is an option to retain the folder structure in the archive location.

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