电子文件这一概念的出现已经十余年了。通俗地说,电子文件是指人们在社会活动中形成的,以计算机盘片、磁盘和光盘等化学磁性材料为载体的文字材料。它主要包括电子文书、电子信件、电子报表、电子图纸等等。它不再是直观的纸质文件,它需要借助现代办公设备才能阅读利用,并可以直接由计算机等现代办公设备迅速地处理和传递。 The emergence of the concept of electronic documents has been more than ten years. To put it in a nutshell, electronic documents refer to text materials formed by people in social activities and using chemical magnetic materials such as computer disks, disks and optical disks as their carrier. It mainly includes electronic documents, e-mail, electronic reports, electronic drawings and so on. It is no longer an intuitive, paper-based document that needs modern office equipment to be read and utilized and can be processed and delivered quickly by modern office equipment such as computers.