ABBYY Mobile Data Capture Solution

Important considerations:

• Smartphones can be the ideal document scanners. The perfection of optics and bandwidth open new possibilities for a wide range of information that can be retrieved from mobile device cameras. With a 5Mpix autofocused camera, the iPhone 4 provides more than enough for high-quality images of A4 documents.
• Smartphone use is growing fast. The number of smartphones shipped grew 87% between Q4, 2009 and Q4, 2010.

Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker

The number of hardcopy peripherals increased only 7% during the same period. 

Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker and Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker.

The convenience and functionality offered by smartphones means they will soon be the most popular “scanning” devices for personal use. This opens the door to new kinds of “on-the-go” business solutions that were never before possible – including what we call it “snapshot to business process” – where customers initiate business workflows by filing documents to backend systems directly from their mobile phones.

With the ABBYY Mobile Data Capture Solution you have the opportunity to provide easy access to your services and products via camera phones, streamlining data communication with customers, partners and employees. 

The Mobile Data Capture Solution (MDCS) is a unique set of technologies designed to extract data from checks, barcodes, receipts, invoices, tax forms, registration forms, utility meters, license plates and other sources – as photographed by a broad range of mobile devices. MDCS turns smartphones into a powerful new entry point for data input, bringing corporations closer to customers, partners and employees alike. By enabling users to input data for use in backend systems, companies can realize huge savings.

Document Processing Workflow

• A customer uses a camera-equipped mobile device to photograph a document or other image and send it to a data capture server.
• A cloud-based data capture server extracts information from the image using an ABBYY FlexiLayout^TM template, and sends the data back to the mobile device for verification.
• The customer approves the data via the mobile apps GUI.
• Successful processing of the result is confirmed on the mobile device. 

Highly versatile, the Mobile Data Capture Solution can calculate the price of goods or services, facilitate reservations, input documents and data into back-end systems, perform money transactions, control home gas, power and water consumption… and much more.

• The mobile phone is literally ubiquitous – making it the ideal gateway for communicating key business data on an ad hoc basis between companies and their customers.
• The data capture server provides virtually unlimited computational resources and when paired with a mobile device enables superb accuracy and performance.
• The data capture server is based on ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine SDK – a universal and comprehensive data capture technology that allows MDCS to be used in a wide variety of scenarios and for almost any kind of document type: structured, semi-structured and unstructured. (see MDCS scenarios). The superb accuracy of ABBYY recognition technology guarantees superior quality and efficiency from your solution.