Bank of the West announces the availability of Scan to Pay, a new bill payment feature soft launched  in its mobile app in October 2014. Customers who prefer to bank on their mobile device can now use their smartphone camera to hover over paper bill stubs to instantly capture all bill information. Through extensive testing, Bank of the West found Scan to Pay is the most accurate service of its kind with almost no image rejections. Scan to Pay stands out through its use of machine learning to read mobile images of bill stubs, creating a streamlined, easy and efficient process for users.

Customer research by the bank found that customers would be more likely to pay and receive bills on their mobile phone with a quicker and simpler experience. “We wanted to build something that is easy to use that gets it right virtually every time,” said Jamie Armistead, executive vice president and head of digital channels at Bank of the West. In response to these findings, Bank of the West is the first bank in the U.S. to launch on-device image quality analysis and image processing, which helps increase image accuracy, reduce rejections and ensure the fastest experience possible.

Read more on Bank of the West’s Website.