On-Document Verification

Question – What do you mean by on-document verification?

Answer – In recent columns I have written about the focus on document security  as demonstrated by the Department of Homeland Security  in a series of Seminars that they have been sponsoring.

For many of us the need for securing documents is not new and we have all been attempting to keep ahead of the curve by implementing a variety of systems and procedures to secure the information on our documents and in our corporate files.

On-Document security and verification is a general term that describes a need to secure the information on a printed document for verification purposes. This can take many forms. One example is official documents with a seal of some sort. Another could simply be watermarks on the paper stock. In the case of checks it could by the security pantograph that shows as ‘VOID’ when an attempt is made to photocopy the document.

At COPI, we are developing the ability to implement a Digital Signature into data that will be encoded to a datamatrix symbol. Using industry standard digital signatures with the users public and private keys, a document can have all or some of the information that is printed, also be encoded with a digital signature and integrated into a small, unobtrusive datamatrix symbol.

Since the symbol would not be able to be scanned and decoded without the appropriate keys, the datamatrix symbol becomes an extremely secure method of verifying the authenticity of that document.

This could be of particular interest to companies who write many checks and require this level of security, now that Check21 eliminates the original documents.

In my next column I will discuss more uses for this level of security.

You can read more about 2D symbologies by reading my archives by pressing here.

For more information on the exciting technology, please call Fraser Ross at 888-999-COPI ext ‘FR’.