7. A method comprising: receiving, by a scanner, a request from a user to register a plurality of remote computing devices at the scanner for remotely assigning metadata to a scanned document generated by the scanner; generating, by the scanner, the scanned document for the user; holding, by the scanner, the scanned document pending a data entry activity by the user at one of the plurality of remote computing devices; identifying, by the scanner, a workflow associated with the scanned document; identifying, by the scanner, the metadata for the scanned document based on the workflow; identifying, by the scanner, one of the plurality of remote computing devices for performing the data entry activity by the user from the plurality of remote computing devices that are registered at the scanner; generating, by the scanner, a web page that requests the metadata based on the workflow; providing, by the scanner, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) link for the web page to the one of the plurality of remote computing devices; receiving, by the scanner, a request from the one of the plurality of remote computing devices for the web page; providing, by the scanner, the web page to the one of the plurality of remote computing devices for entering the metadata for the scanned document from the user; receiving, by the scanner, the metadata for the scanned document utilizing the web page provided to the one of the plurality of remote computing devices; assigning, by the scanner, the metadata received from the web page provided to the one of the plurality of remote computing devices to the scanned document; and releasing, by the scanner, the scanned document to a scan destination.
12. The method of claim 7 wherein holding the scanned document further comprises: holding the scanned document pending a data entry activity that assigns the scan destination to the scanned document.