Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving efficiency of capturing images of documents at computers is provided. The method comprises receiving an instruction to obtain an image of a document using a mobile computer device comprising a camera; generating a unique parameterized uniform resource locator (URL) that has been assigned to the image of the document; sending, to a mobile computer device, the URL using a messaging service and receiving, from the mobile computer device, an invocation of the image capture function specifying the GUID; uploading, from the mobile computer device, the image file; storing the image file in association with the GUID; in response to the instruction to obtain the image of the document, sending the image file to the first computer device.