1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a document processing system residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the document processing system comprising: a document reservation mechanism that allows a user of the document processing system to define metadata corresponding to a paper document during a reservation session for the paper document, where the metadata includes a unique identifier of a label that is applied to the paper document and further includes a disposition policy for the paper document; and a document disposition mechanism that schedules disposition of the paper document according to the disposition policy for the paper document that was specified by the user during the reservation session for the paper document.
1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a document processing system residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the document processing system comprising: a document reservation mechanism that allows a user of the document processing system to define metadata corresponding to a paper document during a reservation session for the paper document, where the metadata includes a unique identifier of a label that is applied to the paper document and further includes a disposition policy for the paper document; and a document disposition mechanism that schedules disposition of the paper document according to the disposition policy for the paper document that was specified by the user during the reservation session for the paper document. 6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the disposition policy comprises a default disposition policy.