K2 offers both standalone systems, for the provision of limited scope document capture applications, as well as an integrated solution where document capture provides a single element of a broader business solution.
Security is based upon 2 technologies:
o Physical encoding of the printed documents
o Signature comparison of the completed document against a previously electronically stored authenticated specimen.
The physical encoding of the printed document can take 3 forms, any of which can be used on its own or in combination:
A physical ‘watermark’ embedded within the substrate of the paper. The K2 solution allows predetermined and scanned watermarks to be digitally read and compared to check the authenticity of the actual paper upon which a document is printed.
A pre-printed encrypted pattern of minute dots (Cryptoglyph ™) representing a fixed number or string of characters which is undecipherable by, and in many cases undetectable by, the human eye -and unreadable using digital imaging without access to the cryptographic ‘key’ used to encode it.
A personalised glyph, similar to the above but imaged onto paper using a digital printer (lED, laser, inkjet, thermal or dye sublimation) fed from a computer source.
The signature verification technology employed is well proven and has been used within the banking industry for cheque clearance purposes for several years.