Ferret Software Ltd. has been a proven Document Management and Invoice Automation software provider since 2001. Ferret was developed from the owner's (Phil North) experience in owning and operating a number of scanning bureaus in New Zealand for many years, which included providing document management services for many large projects. This included 70 tonnes of large format engineering drawings for a major utility. Close to 50% of all scanning work done by the scanning bureaus were invoices. . Ferret Software have four core products: Ferret, Ferret AP Approvals, ScanWatcher and ETU.