1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; at least one digital image of a paper-based document, the digital image residing in the memory; a physical storage location for the paper-based document; a digital filing application residing in the memory and being executed by the at least one processor, the digital filing application extracting a globally unique identifier from the at least one digital image of the paper-based document and using the globally unique identifier to link the digital image to a computerized database record which was created prior to the creation of the digital image and which record contains information about the physical storage location for the paper-based document.