Automate the capture of form data using dynamic 2D barcodes

Many parts of your organization still rely on paper forms to capture critical information. While paper forms are familiar to end users, processing them can be costly. Capturing data from paper is not only inefficient, but it also introduces expensive errors.

Automate paper forms processing

Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms can replace less efficient forms processing alternatives for organizations that need to process high volumes of “fill-and-print” paper forms. With Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms, you can enhance fillable Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) forms with dynamic 2D barcodes, allowing your organization to automate paper forms processing. This will help you reduce processing costs and errors and save you time. What’s more, with Adobe technology, you can process both electronic and paper forms in a single, unified environment, so you can provide faster and more accurate services to end users. Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms allows you to:

• Eliminate manual data entry and lower forms processing costs
• Improve data accuracy in core systems
• Streamline mission-critical processes
• Provide end users more options for forms submission
• Ease the transition to electronic forms processes

Adobe LiveCycle software is built on a common server architecture based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and XML, allowing for easy integration into enterprise infrastructures by providing Java APIs and support for Web services protocols. Adobe LiveCycle is optimised for IBM WebSphere, and can be deployed on JBoss application servers.

Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms leverages industry-standard technology to author, update, and decode 2D barcoded, fillable PDF forms. Because two-dimensional barcodes are machine-readable symbols that store information along the height and width of the symbol, they provide significantly higher data capacity than a typical one-dimensional barcode.

The 2D barcode encodes user-supplied information in real time during form fill-in. When the form is printed and submitted by fax or mail, you can use Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms to efficiently and automatically decode the barcode and send the extracted user-supplied form data to the next step of your organization’s processing system. When the barcode is read successfully, captured data is a 100 percent match with the information supplied by the form end user, and no human intervention is required other than mail handling. The barcode’s built-in error correction increases successful reads to very high levels, even in consumer-level and faxed workflow's.

• Form authoring: Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 or Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 Professional with the Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms 7.0 barcode authoring tool allows form designers to incorporate 2D barcode capability into their fillable Adobe PDF forms.
• Form fill-in: End users can fill in an Adobe PDF form using Acrobat 7.0 or Adobe Reader® 7.0 software. As a user enters information, the data is dynamically encoded into the 2D barcode in real time.
• Form processing: The Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms 7.0 decoder automatically scans completed forms, reads 2D barcodes, and extracts user supplied information as XML data or in another standard format specified by the form author.

1. The organization designs and deploys a 2D barcode-enabled, fillable Adobe PDF form.
2. The end user completes the form using Adobe Reader® software.
3. The end user prints the form and submits it by mail, fax, or hand delivery.
4. Upon receipt, the organization scans the form to extract user-supplied information from the 2D barcode and supplies the data to core systems.

1. The organization designs and deploys the same 2D barcode-enabled, fillable Adobe PDF form as described in the paper-based submission section above.
2. The end user completes the form using Adobe Reader.
3. The end user submits the form electronically (online).

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