The UltraForms® Technology Advantage

Embedded inside PDF fillable Forms, UltraForms® Technology provides a unique opportunity to reduce costs from traditional data capture operations. Compared with traditional manual data capture, the estimated cost savings ratio is 15:1. Compared with OCR (Optical Character Recognition), it provides a higher level of accuracy (100%) in the data capture process, which can result in cost savings of three times or higher.

Fill, Print & Capture. End of the story.

UltraForms® Technology is invisible to the end-user. The end-user fills the PDF form and prints it. That's it. The only software needed is Adobe Acrobat® Reader (version 4.05 and up).

Once the form is signed and submitted, its data is captured by scanning the 2D barcode. This guarantees 100% accuracy in the data capture process. You will never have to worry about errors or false positives again.

The Forms Present

Current forms processing techniques (OCR, ICR, OMR, etc.) try to behave like humans reading "human style" characters. Although these techniques have evolved, there are still a number of errors and false positives that arise. These machine errors have to be corrected by expensive personnel. There's no other way to do it... unless you don't have any errors to repair.

The Forms Revolution

UltraForms® Technology has been developed under a simple philosophy: build machine readable symbols that can be read by machines without errors. The symbols we build are 2D barcodes.

2D barcodes are a mature technology that is currently being used in a variety of industries: Retail, Military, Health, Insurance, Government, etc. If you want to have a complete overview about 2D barcodes and how they work, please read our 2D Barcodes Technology Overview.

Though 2D barcodes are a proven technology, until now, they needed custom developed applications in order to work. The end-user (the person who fills, prints and signs the form) always had to install a proprietary application specially designed to generate 2D barcodes. In addition, the process owner (the one who needed to gather the data) had to develop and maintain a different application for each platform (WIN, MAC, UNIX, etc) and for each different type of "document" produced.

Once the barcode was produced, the rest of the process ran smoothly. In essence, the generation of the barcode has stopped this technology to successfully enter the forms processing arena, reaching the general public.

UltraForms® Technology: A massive 2D Barcode Generator

UltraForms® Technology has been developed to perform on top of one of the most popular and widespread platforms: The free Adobe Acrobat® Reader. No further installations are required. No plug-ins. No libraries. No fonts. Just Reader. And guess what, it works from version 4.05 and up (although we recommend to upgrade to Adobe Reader 6.0).

Today, more than 500 million people* worldwide can start to produce 2D barcodes just by filling and printing a PDF Form.

UltraForms® Technology is the first massive 2D Barcode Generator prepared to be used right away by the general public worldwide.

*Adobe's reported Acrobat Reader downloads - July 2003

Where can I use UltraForms®?

Anywhere a form has to be filled, printed and submitted, UltraForms® Technology will provide for 100% error free data capture, reducing costs and speeding up the process. This will immediately translate in service quality improvements.

It doesn't matter if the form has one page or many, or if the end-user has a laser or an inkjet printer. All the form's data will be encapsulated in a 2D barcode that can be easily read with a handheld scanner or with appropriate software, by a non-specialized operator.

More information

If you would like to have additional information on UltraForms® Technology, or want to speak to someone about your specific situation, please visit our contact page.