iPhone Application for Document Capture

Our first iPhone Application is demonstrated tomorrow at Mashup's "Apps- Whats your Strategy" Event.

Its an application that lets you photograph documents with an iPhone, then tag and store them and share them on Google Docs. Why? Well, this takes you down an App strategy. We think that SOHO/SME will pay far more for useful applications than consumers will, and will pay on an ongoing basis for useful additions. So, on to (ta-dah)

The Portable Paperless Office

Whatever Happened To The Paperless Office, we hear you ask? It hasn't happened - its too big a task, and too difficult to integrate, too inconvenient and for the most part - outside of some parts of the corporate arena - forgotten

But imagine if we used a few of today's technologies and shrank it all - and made it mobile? We believe that today there are all the elements required for the truly effective and ubiquitous mobile paperless office:

- Phone replaces the scanner
- 3G allows fast transmission to cloud storage
- Paperless Office app supports really fast scanning, OCR and filing of a document on the iPhone
- Captured documents are stored locally and mirrored remotely

So we built an end to end delivery chain system to do just this. Come and see it tomorrow.

As you know, we are a consultancy and system design house, but most of our systems are embedded deep in other companies' stuff so never seen. This is one off our own bat, and we would be keen to talk to others who want to add functionality to it, or embed it in their systems.

(And yes, we have the scars from building Apps on iPhones, and integrating to the Google cloud, Don't let anyone tell you its easy - most of what we blog about has some basis in our real network design experience, hence some healthy Cloud scepticism in Broadsight Towers)

And yes, we will integrate it to the iPad, when the hype dies down After all, it has no camera - yet....