Chapter 13. Implementing Imaging and Forms Processing

Alfresco includes integrated scanning and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technologies. This chapter helps you to implement an end-to-end solution by collecting paper documents and forms, transforming them into accurate, retrievable information, and delivering them into an organization's business applications. The information is full-text searchable, and goes through various approval workflows, based on the organization's defined business process management.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to:

• Connect a scanner to a network drive and map it to a space within Alfresco

• Specify a business rule to automatically extract metadata from the scanned document

• Define and execute a workflow process for scanned documents

• Bulk upload scanned documents into the Alfresco repository

• Integrate OCR utilities into Alfresco

• Integrate and use Kofax Ascent Capture

• Integrate Alfresco with eCopy-enabled scanners

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