Although the technology is current today, proprietary formats like docSTAR may go the way of the Canofile format. It is hard to predict what software or systems will be current five or ten years from now. This raises concerns about the future readability of these documents. Many organizations have experienced how word processing documents created with an older version of a program can become unreadable by newer applications. ScanSmart can convert proprietary docSTAR files into non-proprietary TIFF or PDF formats.