Anoto functionality brings together digital communication and handwriting, putting the power of digital communication into pen and paper. Anoto functionality involves digital pen technology, digital paper technology and server technology.
Anoto functionality is what all products and services have in common. This compatibility allows you to use pen and paper just as you have always done, but now you are also connected to the digital world.
When using digital pen and paper enabling Anoto functionality, a tiny camera in the pen registers the pen's movement across the grid surface on the paper and stores it as series of map coordinates. These coordinates correspond to the exact location of the page you're writing on.
When you make a mark in the SEND box with your digital pen, the pen is instructed to send the stored sequence of map coordinates, which are translated into an image that will result in an exact copy of your handwriting displayed on any computer or mobile phone, or received as a Fax anywhere in the world.
The Anoto pattern is a single unique pattern that if printed out would cover the whole of Europe & Asia. It is a series of small dots printed on an invisible grid. The pattern can be embedded in any paper document and images such as form layouts can be overprinted.
Once graphical images are received they can then be converted to ascii text and transmitted in data files most commonly in XML format.
How does it work?
Users write with the Digital Pen on the specially printed paper (This is normal paper printed with a faint, unique pattern of dots). As the user writes, a tiny camera in the pen registers its movement across the surface of the paper. The camera takes up to 100 pictures per second of the position of the pen strokes in relation to the 'dot pattern' on the page. This creates a digital image of exactly what is written with each pen stroke, time and date stamped. In addition to this all pen data can be linked to an individual user, as each Digital Pen has a unique Pen ID.
The pen stroke data is stored as a series of map co-ordinates in the Digital Pen and because the pattern on the paper is unique, with an individual traceability code, the pen knows which pen strokes relate to each piece of paper.
A command box, to send the data, is printed on each page or paper form. This is called the “SEND pidget”. On completion of a form the user simply ticks the SEND pidget to transmit the data.
Transmitting the data
When you tick the SEND pidget, your data can be transmitted to a computer system via a Bluetooth-enabled mobile
phone. Alternatively the data can be transferred using a docking station attached by USB port to your PC or laptop.
Data Management
Destiny hosts many DP&P applications on a resilient and robust network architecture with mirrored servers, load balancers
and 100% uptime. We simply route your data via our servers and only keep copies if you wish us to archive.
