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using Alfresco to manage scanned images

mbrando — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:01:11 GMT

Hi,I'm looking for a image management solution for a client. Basically they are scanning contracts and invoices. They only OCR a small amount of information form each document for purposes of searching e.g. invoice number, contract number, date, customer contact info… etc. They currently use a home

Re: using Alfresco to manage scanned images

mrogers — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:46:48 GMT

It sounds like a fairly straight forward use of alfresco document management. You can associate the images with meta data about the image, do workflow, search, manage permissions for each business unit etc. There's also a host of other features that may be useful such as version control, image transformation, thumbnailing, tagging etc. And there's also an image management module you should take a look at.

And as you have seen on the wiki there are OCR plug ins if and when you need them.

You can have a several separate instances of Alfresco for unit or one big one, Alfresco will comfortably handle a few million documents so I'd start with a single instance.

Re: using Alfresco to manage scanned images

mbrando — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:10:18 GMT

Hi,

Thank You. I think this is worth doing a beta install to investigate this further.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: using Alfresco to manage scanned images

jerarquiadp — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:51:26 GMT

Hi…

i don't find documentation in the wiki about OCR plug ins…can you say me where is it?

Thank you….goodbye