“Capture” of information from documents has historically required human effort. A worker would have to transcribe information from a paper document, or copy and paste the text from electronic documents, to enter it into the correct system for downstream processing. Intelligent capture technologies replace that manual work. They can recognize printed text, handwriting, and barcodes; they can identify the type of document based on its content and format to classify it; and they can extract specific data elements as needed for the business process.