But Conway is poised to take his robotic psychologist into a menagerie of fields, starting with email scanning.

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The technology sounds somewhat similar to Tripit, which organizes travel information by scanning email itineraries.

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Sneakily scanning their email messages sounds nearly insane, and the reaction to the episode proves how bad an idea it in fact was.

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At its core, eSignature eliminates the burdensome process of receiving a document (a contract, non-disclosure agreement, or application, for example) in email, printing it out, signing it, scanning it back in, and returning it by email to the sender.

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Autonomy makes compliance easier by scanning outbound Twitter or Facebook postings much the way it performs compliance on email looking for potential compliance problems.

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Once upon a time not too long ago, document signage involved downloading the document, printing it off, picking up a pen with either black or blue ink and signing off at the appropriate places, scanning the document once signed, uploading it, attaching the paperwork to an email, and then finally sending off that email back in reply with your signature.

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