Company Background

Company Background

Located in Sacramento, Altec Systems Inc. is a privately held California corporation founded in 1988 to provide document and data management services.

By the late 1990's, the company began doing business as SoftFile, in order to better identify with paper to electronic document conversion. People often use the term 'soft file' to refer to an electronic copy of a file.

The following is a timeline of important dates in our company history:

  • 1988: Founded in Sacramento, CA
  • 2003: Acquired Visual Graphix, a document management company in Sacramento, CA
  • 2004: Opened an office in Cebu, Philippinnes
  • 2005: Acquired Nevada Micrographics, a document management company in Sparks, NV
  • 2008: Purchased a building for our headquarters in Sacramento, CA
  • 2011: Acquired Omni Mountain, a document management company in Sacramento, CA
  • 2015: Expanded high-volume data capture operations in our Cebu, Philippines office to support growing client needs
  • 2017: Launched secure cloud-hosted services, giving clients on-demand access to their digital records
  • 2019: Scanned and digitized our 80 millionth client image, marking a major milestone in document preservation
  • 2022: Modernized production systems with advanced AI-driven OCR to improve data accuracy and efficiency
  • 2025: Celebrated 37 years in business, continuing to deliver trusted document management and conversion solutions across the U.S.
  • Did You Know?

    Since 1988, SoftFile has successfully implemented projects for over 1,000 private companies and government agencies. Here's a partial list of our past and present clients:

    • State of CA - DMV
    • State of CA - CalTrans
    • CalPERS
    • Google
    • Coca-Cola
    • Safeway
    • Dignity Health
    • City of Oakland
    • Bank of America
    • Sacramento County
    • Harrahs Entertainment
    • HealthNet
    • Campbell Soup
    • Johnson & Johnson
    • Chevron
    • Longs Drug Stores
    • Monsanto
    • Fidelity National Financial
    • Pacific Gas & Electric
    • First American Corp.
    • Rite Aid
    • Superior Court of CA