Paperless handling of mortgage loan documents before the loan is closed has been much discussed but rarely adopted. TowerGroup believes that the industry, both lenders and the technology suppliers that support them, are now in a position to take advantage of the benefits preclosing imaging can provide. This TowerGroup Research Note discusses approaches to implementing imaging; reviews the opportunities imaging, document management, and enterprise content management can offer a lender; and examines the approaches that loan origination system vendors have taken in integrating with imaging solutions.