An originator accesses a client system to select a form, then enters data to be associated with a particular instance of the form. When the originator requests printing of the partially completed form, the print command is intercepted by a driver in the client system, which communicates with a form-processing application in the center, which assigns a unique identifier to the form and associates the identifier with the form in a data base. The form is then printed for the originator, who sends the form to a user. The user completes the form, including markings such as a signature or handwritten information and returns it to the center. After extracting the identifier from the returned form and verifying the form, the center automatically routes and/or indexes and/or forwards the image of the form to the proper location(s), and may also automatically enter the extracted data, properly indexed, into a data base.