Patent ID: 7936925

Claim:
A method comprising: preparing a form relating to an entity, wherein said form comprises machine readable metadata identifying said entity and form processing instructions; machine readable selection items relating to data to be captured by said form; and spaces for handwritten text; providing said form on a medium that is capable of being marked; after markings have been placed on said form by a user who interacted with said entity, scanning said form to produce an image file; analyzing said image file to identify whether user added markings are present on said machine readable selection items; obtaining electronically storable data relating to said entity based on said user added markings on said machine readable selection items; determining whether user added handwritten markings are present in said spaces for handwritten text; if said user added handwritten markings are present and in response to said user added markings on said machine readable selection items, one of: maintaining only an image of said user added handwritten markings; and maintaining an image of said user added handwritten text markings, automatically forwarding said image of said user added handwritten text markings to a transcription center, and transcribing said user added handwritten markings into said electronically storable data relating to said entity; and outputting said electronically storable data relating to said entity.