How to Digitalize your Documents with Digilocker?

Introduction

Digilocker, launched by the Government of India, is an easy-to-use web application that lets you upload, share and store documents on the cloud. It’s free to use and available to individuals, organizations and businesses of all sizes with no hidden charges or pricing schemes. Digilocker makes it simple to scan and save your paper documents as digital copies in order to minimize the risk of losing them, then allowing you to share them with others or make them available online. The app also allows you to download these same documents at any time without losing their integrity or authenticity.

What is Digilocker?

Digilocker is a single source for all of your official documents. All these files are securely stored in one place and can be accessed anytime, anywhere. Digilocker helps you prevent loss of important official papers by keeping them safe & secure online and offline. You can use Digilocker in 3 ways: Cloud (web), Android App and iOS App. These three apps work on different devices such as computers, tablets and smartphones (running on Windows, Mac OS or Android). Certain features that are supported on the cloud-based version of their service are not supported on their mobile app.

The Digilocker feature is one of these. So if you want to store any document using Digilocker on your mobile device, then it has to be done through their web application. Digilocker also offers an API which allows developers to integrate its services into third party applications and websites. This makes it easier for users who want a convenient way of storing their digital documents but don’t want to use Digilocker’s own native apps. This API also enables integration between other government services such as eSign Services and Aadhaar Authentication Services etc., thus making it easier for users who need access from multiple government portals/services at once from one central location.

Advantages of Digilocker

The biggest advantage of creating a Digilocker is that you can access all your documents from anywhere. All you need is an internet connection, and you’re set. You don’t have to worry about carrying around documents, which makes it extremely easy to travel.

Also, by digitizing everything, you can help prevent identity theft and fraud: When people steal paper copies of important documents (or worse—if they hack into a server), they often try to sell them on other sites or forums.

With digital documents, they are much harder (or impossible) to re-sell because they are watermarked in such a way that someone can easily tell if something was stolen. Last but not least, there’s no risk of damage. A piece of paper can be torn or lost; a hard drive crash could wipe out years worth of work. If you want to make sure your most important documents are safe, go digital!

Features of Digilocker

The feature of Digilocker is that government departments can store and manage their digital documents on Digilocker, which makes it very easy for citizens to access their documents. If a citizen needs a certain document, he or she just has to request it from his/her Digilocker account.

The citizen can easily retrieve and download his or her documents through a browser-based user interface (UI). He or she does not need any additional software. For example, if someone wants to know how much tax he/she paid last year, he or she can simply log into his/her Digilocker account and see all of his/her tax payment details stored in one place.

Moreover, if a citizen loses an important document such as marriage certificate, birth certificate etc., they can simply log into their Digilocker account to download it again. This saves them time and money in retrieving lost documents because they do not have to go back to where they originally received these documents. Also, if someone wishes to share some of these important documents with others via email or other means such as WhatsApp etc., they are able to do so quickly without having any extra effort since everything is stored in one place in their Digilocker accounts.

Steps To Create A New Digilocker Account

In order to start digitalizing your documents and storing them in DigiLocker, you will have to create a new account. Follow these steps to create a new Digilocker account.

1. Visit www.digilocker.gov.in to register
2. Register for an account by entering your name, email address and mobile number
3. Verify your mobile number
4. Provide a strong password
5. Enter security questions and answers
6. Enter captcha code
7. Agree to terms of service
8. Select gender
9. Select state
10. Upload an image of valid government issued ID
11. Upload recent photograph
12. Review details
13. Submit

Once all details are submitted successfully you can download Digilocker app from Google play store or Apple app store on any smartphone or tablet device to view, edit or share your documents anytime anywhere using internet connection.

How to issue documents in Digilocker?

First, go to ‘documents’ option in Digilocker website or app. Now click on ‘new’ icon and enter title of document. Enter description and attachments of document as per requirement. Click on issue icon now select users who can view and share documents. That’s it! you are done.

How to upload documents In Digilocker?

Now that you have registered yourself on Digilocker, you will be presented with a dashboard of all documents and categories. Under each category, you will find sub-categories for various departments like Income Tax, Passport & Driving Licence etc. You can upload any type of document as long as it is supported by Digilocker; in most cases though, photographs are enough to carry out most activities and tasks. To upload a document from your smartphone just click on photo or video icon; then select upload photo or video option. This will give an option of choosing image file from phone gallery or capture using camera directly. Once done click upload button and wait till it’s uploaded successfully.

Synchronizing Files with Computer And Mobile Phone

How to digitalize your documents is becoming a global issue. According to a recent report published by DHL, less than 5% of all files are in digital format. The rest of them are stored in some form or other on paper or even engraved on stone.

If you are keeping files in physical form and later would like to have them transferred into digital ones, then it will be quite hard for you do that. To help you government is launching Digilocker App which can help you lock and secure all important documents without any worries as they are safe inside it till they reach their destination anywhere around world . It also lets you share these files with people who need access to them and you get notified when anyone opens those file. You don’t need to worry about anything else once you put your trust on government’s new app. All your documents are safe with them.

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