Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Wireless Scanners on the Way
Xerox recently announced its first wireless MFP. This reminded me of a couple conversations I had recently regarding the potential of wirelss document scanners being introduced onto the market. My vision would be a wireless scanner or MFP that could scan an image to your smartphone or tablet, where you could preview it and then upload it to your ECM system.
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This is already here today. I would suggest that the image itself does not need to physically be sent to the smartphone or tablet. Bandwidth is still a concern and you would want to limit the amount of network traffic needed to complete a transaction.
If the scanning device can store the image temporarily in secure memory then any web-browser enabled mobile device could view a thumbnail of the image directly from the embedded server on the device (basically it acts as a web server). The potential to do automatic data extraction also exists in this scenario. Imagine if users can easily initiate a scan, automatically extract tags from the image, and then validate fields and release. This would really help drive adoption of information capture due to the simplicity of this sort of system.
I like it, but you say it's "already here." Can you specify?
Thanks.
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