Exhibit 31.1


CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION
302


OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF
2002





I, David P. Clark, certify that:





1.I have reviewed this Form
10-KofDocument Capture Technologies,Inc. (“Company”)




2. Based
on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered bythis report;





3. Based
on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial
condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company as of,
andfor, the periods
presented in this report;





4. The
Company’s other certifying officer and I are
responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures
(as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)))) and internal control over financial reporting (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f))for the Company and
have:





a)
designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
controls and procedures to be designed underour supervision, to ensure that material
information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is
made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period
in which this report is being prepared;


b)designed such internal
control over financial reporting , or caused such internal control over
financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable
assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation
offinancial statements for external
purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles;


c) evaluated the
effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures and
presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls
and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such
evaluation; and


d)
disclosed in this report any change in the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting that occurred
during the Company’s most recent fiscal quarter (the
Company’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of
an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting; and





5. The
Company’s other certifying officer and I have
disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over
financial reporting, to the Company’s auditors and the audit committee of
the Company’s Board of Directors (or persons
performing the equivalent
functions):





a)
all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation
of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial
information; and


b)
any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees
who have a significant role in the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting.




Date:
      April 15,2009/s/David
      P. ClarkDavid P. ClarkChief
      Executive
      Officer(Principal Executive
      Officer)




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