The Emerging Concept Of Mobile Capture Devices

By John Lawhead, KeyMark, Inc.

Smartphones are great for taking selfies and photos of your kids, but the image quality of a mobile camera still isn’t clean enough to capture a clear image of a business document, let alone one that can be processed using technology such as OCR (optical character recognition).

Before we look at how mobile technology is changing the way we conduct business, let’s look at the flow of a standard business practice – forms management. To start with, a form is filled out either by hand or as a PDF. Once all of the data fields have been filled out and the form has been submitted for processing, an employee typically sifts through the information to make sure it is complete. The information is then manually classified and entered into the appropriate system of record.

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