Field capture: photograph your receipts

Capture is the heart of the mobile app: turning a paper — invoice, receipt, statement — into a document usable in SynkriaOps, in a few seconds, even without a network.

The five document types

The home screen offers five cards, each opening the camera directly:

Capture shortcuts at the top of Home: one tap opens the camera.

Type	Use
Supplier invoice	An invoice received from a supplier
Customer invoice	An invoice you issued on paper
Expense report	A business expense receipt
Accounting piece	Any accounting supporting document
Bank statement	A paper statement, scanned like a document

Photographing a document

1. On the home screen, tap the card matching the document type. The camera opens directly.

2. Frame the page using the corner brackets. Turn on the torch if needed.

3. Take the shot. You can chain several pages (up to 20) for a single document.

4. Check the thumbnails, delete a bad page, then tap Finish (N pages).

The native auto-crop scanner

If your phone supports it, a scanner button uses the built-in document detector: automatic cropping, perspective correction, multi-page. The result joins the same queue as manual photos.

Zero network during capture

Capture never depends on the connection. Each photo is optimised (rotation, compression) then stored locally in a queue; the upload to the server happens later, automatically, as soon as a network is available.

On the field, stress-free

You can photograph a stack of invoices in a warehouse with no network coverage: everything is queued and will leave on its own when the connection returns. See Offline mode.

Import an existing document

Already have the file? Tap “Import an existing document”:

• Gallery photos (up to 20) — join the capture queue, offline OK.
• PDF from Files — sent online (assembly and OCR happen server-side).

Share from another app

From WhatsApp, Files or any Android share, choose “Share to SynkriaOps”: the document opens the import flow directly. The share even survives the sign-in screen if you are not yet identified.

After capture

A card shows the number of pending documents. Once uploaded, they are processed by server-side OCR, then appear as drafts to complete (supplier invoice, expense report…). See Import an invoice via OCR for the rest of the processing.

The uploads queue: captures wait here, even offline, until they reach your inbox.

Further reading

• Offline mode — the queue and the synchronisation
• Banking & reconciliation — capture and process a statement
• Review & correct OCR data — finalise a captured document