By Kathy Kaufman


Teleform is a technology developed to assist the companies with multiple data be able to easily capture their information, validate the in formation, and safely store the information. The information that is to be teleformed could be in the form of images, whereby this technology would scan the images, mathematical data could also be transformed, and the most unique one is that this technology could also be able to recognise symbologies of different countries.

It was first made in the year 1991 with the aim that it reads information sent via fax, via paper and other electronic means. Man tends to be more diverse in their technology when they face certain difficulties in their work. This is the same thing that made Hewlett Packard company develop the teleform technology, to make heir work simpler.

This technology works in a very simple manner. It basically depends on other means of technologies in order for it to read the data, this shows the interdependence in technological services. The Optical Mark Reading (OMR) is one of the forms of technology that these devices depends on. Optical Mark Reading is the predecessor of the photo scanner. Digitalisation of data entered in paper form is done by this application. It is reliable and holds more information per sheet.

In addition to this OMR are other forms of optical technology that work hand in hand with this device so as to make the reading successful. An example s then Optical Character Recognition which is helpful in the reading of documents such as letters that are present din paper form. Similar to this is the Intelligent Character Recognition. The Bar Code Recognition is the last among the four that works with this technology.

This system performs very many tasks. It helps in the scanning of images. It also gives a chance to its users to make a review of their work before it is stored to allow for corrections of any mistakes done. It also creates forms that can be read by the machine. The most important function is the reading and storage of data in the correct database.

There are both advantages and disadvantages of this system. It is very fast in the transmission of date and this therefore boosts the supplier customer relationship. It is way too cheap since no document is sorted manually which is a very expensive way of sorting documents. The papers are also kept in very safe databases as their store and thus the business is very safe as well as the papers themselves. Productivity is the other key factor that will be enhanced if the manual sorting is kicked off since it wastes much time and the workers would focus on other important jobs.

The disadvantages include loss of jobs for very many people. It is electronic and thus when a company decides to initiate it, the workers that were employed before to do the sorting manually immediately lose their jobs. Technology also has a wicked side in as much as it is also great in easement of work. This wicked side is the one that mainly makes people to curse it.

Teleform, its history, its functioning, advantages and disadvantages have been explained above. All one needs to do now is to consider the greatness that this technology comes with, and change the way in which their organisation operates. This would simply happen with the change from manual to teleform, which is more of digital.




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