Among many applications of barcodes, document management is one. Document management can be referred as an automatic process where documents are scanned for extracting their contents. Document management solutions include recognition of text and barcodes. Organization of data can be made easy by using barcodes in document management. Specific document management software is required with barcode recognition capabilities.

Barcodes are read by devices called barcode readers or barcode scanners like Symbol scanners, WASP scanners and so on. A serial number can be associated to a barcode with every number in a batch of documents. The data is read by scanning the images and advanced software is used for this purpose. A checksum and a pair of symbols which connotate the beginning and end of a barcode are made to improve accuracy.

A barcode separator sheet orders the software to associate with a batch of documents containing a specific account number. After reading the data from the documents, the next batch is allowed for reading. Verification of information and checking of specific requests are done by barcode document management. The barcode separator sheet gives captured software information that helps in improving scanning quality and resolution. Indexing of documents involving high-volume scanning operations can be done by application of barcodes. Document management is used in educational institutions and administration departments which make use of Symbol scanners for reading documents.

By MND A01