Many small SMEs still use paper documents for transactions. Ordering on forms to pass to the salesman and wait for him to bring it to the warehouse is common. Small companies may still find it expensive and inconvenient to bring iPads and tablets to take orders, especially when some customers insist on ordering by forms. In such cases, why don't you use OCR like image to text app on iPhone (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/image-to-text-ocr/id431757093?mt=8)? Just take a image and send it to the warehouse for pickers to act asap. Records can also be easily kept for subsequent analysis. You don't waste space and effort filing paper records too. OCR is useful for SMEs because orders and requests comes in many different forms. Since it is difficult to standardize orders, might as well standardize how information is captured and archived.
Similarly a signed DO can be OCR-Ed for billing and analysis. In this case, a picture capturing the signature may also be useful.
Let me know if you have other use of OCRs too.
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