Document Imaging Capture Here, There, Everywhere?

Some of the most exciting--and confusing developments--in the document imaging industry are occurring in the realm of document capture. That is, the means and methods by which paper documents are digitized.

Optical Character Recognition is the technology headline in this area, allowing the document capture process to operate on autopilot without data entry workers needing to manually input and correct document data.

However, Optical Character Recognition is still a highly inexact science.

Meanwhile, distributed capture techniques such as mobile document imaging are entering the realm of possibility, when once they were science fiction. The ability for sales road warrior types to actually image documents from mobile phones or PDAs could be revolutionary.

Again, though, this looks like the second inning of a nine inning game.