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Paper documents stamped with bar codes are widely used in a variety of industries such as finance, mortgage, insurance, healthcare, transportation and manufacturing. Combine these bar code stamped documents with computer based faxing, network scanners and MFD's and the result is mature and cost-saving data collection technologies that address the following mission critical organizational needs:
- Assists in expediting bar code data collection processing
and reduces handling of employee expense reports, accounting
documents, financial documents, mortgage packages, documents
of public record, and other line of business or time sensitive
documents
- Provide a variety of encryption levels and 100% accuracy
- Provide routing information and document identification
for document imaging or enterprise content management systems
- Enhance business workflow, minimize data entry and increase
speed and efficiency of processing, archiving documents
and bar code data collection
- Resolve document security related compliance issues with
ISO, HIPA or SOX
- Customers and remote employees can print web-based or
PDF bar code pre-index sheets, and then send back documents
through bar code faxing for automatic processing
The TargetFax Barcode Server
The TargetFax Barcode Server is a Windows 2000/2k3
based bar code fax receving product that combines the power
and flexibility of TargetFax WorkFlow with bar code fax and
bar code data collection technology to automatically identify,
divide, index and deliver documents directly into daily business
workflow processes. Bar code faxing delivery options include
send to printer, network directory, e-mail address, document
management system or custom application. Bar codes can be
printed directly on the documents or used as batch separator
pages. Separator pages can be kept or discarded. The TargetFax
Barcode Server currently supports more than 15 different 1D
barcodes. The Advanced Barcode component supports specific
linear bar codes and over twenty 2D bar codes for bar code
data collection.
MFD Devices
The TargetFax Barcode Server also supports receiving
images and bar code data collection through bar code faxing
from any MFD, copier or scanning device that can deliver the
document to a network accessible directory in either TIFF
or PDF format using index-based filenames. (Click
Here For More Information ) Features and Functionality
Once the bar code fax images are received, utilizing
computerized fax or scanner devices, the TargetFax Barcode
Server can be configured to first devide the file into documents,
collect bar code date, index as needed, and then deliver the
documents, with or without bar code separator pages, to one
or more of the following destinations:
- Printers
- SMTP Email addresses
- Network Directories or FTP staging points
- Document Imaging Solutions
- Workflows
TargetFax Barcode Server can be configured to deliver the documents, with or without a barcode separator pages, in the following formats:
- Single Page Tiff
- Multipage Tiff
- PDF (Image based)
- JPG
TargetFax Barcode Server can be configured to rename and
stamp the documents, with or without bar code separator pages,
based on combinations of:
- Barcode Index Values and Lookup Tables
- Senders CSID
- Date/Time Received
- Recipient Information, such as user or department
- Custom Fields
- Fixed Value Counters
About Bar Codes - Bar Code Data
Collection
Barcode 39 is a 1D barcode (shown below), which can
be created as part of an edited document such as Microsoft Word
or Excel, using a Report Writer like Crystal Reports, or from
an HTML web page. Bar codes can be created using a barcode
font. Many 1D bar code fonts are available on the Internet.
The most common bar code in use today for complex document processing
and symbolic encryption is PDF417 (shown below). PDF417 is a
2D bar code that holds a maximum of around 1600 characters.
These are commonly used to pass structured information, such
as data filled in on a form.
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