topic Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-a-suggestion-about-how-to-implement-unusual-behaviour/m-p/231342#M184472 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have an uncommon requirement.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Alfresco here is used as a simple repository getting (image) documents from a scanner.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So far, I've used the great </SPAN><A href="http://code.google.com/p/zxing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/zxing/</A><SPAN> project to read a barcode written inside those documents, so I can use the barcode number to assign a property to the document (and other properties associated by that number) - it works like a charm (btw, if someone wants snippets to do this, simply ask me)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now 2 new requirements: </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>1)if the scanned images are put in a multi-page-capable format (pdf or tiff), my boss want those pages to be merged in a single document. Any hint about this?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>2)since we have no control over those documents, we can not choose to apply the barcode on each sheet of paper. So if I had resolved requirement 1, I still have the problem of merging all documents coming from the scanner since after the first sheet I have barcodes anymore. My boss suggested that the merge should occur when we find a document with a new barcode, meaning that the previous one had finishd. I don't like this solution (works only if there is a single user i.e. a single scanner, and is weak since a failure in reading the barcode would not throw an error but simply append the new document to the previous..) but my boss can live with that.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Do you have any suggestion/ideas? I don't need the work done, but I wonder if there is a better solution, or how to implement it at best </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>(for example, where do you think is the best place to 'record' the current barcode, would you do a SingletonService using Spring or store a type=base property on the sotre?)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks to everyone</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Alex</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:01:56 GMT ale_carraro 2009-11-06T15:01:56Z Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-a-suggestion-about-how-to-implement-unusual-behaviour/m-p/231342#M184472 I have an uncommon requirement.Alfresco here is used as a simple repository getting (image) documents from a scanner.So far, I've used the great http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ project to read a barcode written inside those documents, so I can use the barcode number to assign a property to the docum Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:01:56 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-a-suggestion-about-how-to-implement-unusual-behaviour/m-p/231342#M184472 ale_carraro 2009-11-06T15:01:56Z Re: Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-a-suggestion-about-how-to-implement-unusual-behaviour/m-p/231343#M184473 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Sorry for this late reply. I was trying the barcode reader you mentioned. But it can not work. So I download another free trial </SPAN><A href="http://www.onbarcode.com/products/net_barcode_reader/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><SPAN style="color:black;">barcode reader</SPAN></A><SPAN> project to read the barcode image. It is successful. But it needs to be paid. I want some free ones. </SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 21 Oct 2013 06:47:46 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-a-suggestion-about-how-to-implement-unusual-behaviour/m-p/231343#M184473 alisaslwe 2013-10-21T06:47:46Z Re: Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-a-suggestion-about-how-to-implement-unusual-behaviour/m-p/231344#M184474 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>To manipulate PDF files have a look at PDF box.&nbsp;&nbsp; Its what alfresco uses itself to extract meta-data but you can use it to manipulate PDF documents.&nbsp;&nbsp; I had a quick look and there's a likely looking "addPage" method.&nbsp;&nbsp; And a "Splitter" class that can go in the other direction.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My thoughts are that you are over-using the "barcode".&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes its part of your solution but there's a bit of an issue with using it to group several pages together.&nbsp;&nbsp; For example there is also an issue of page ordering.&nbsp; Can you get any information from your scanner to batch together pages?&nbsp; Can you upload the pages into a folder and then run an action to merge them together?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That could work automatically if you can have a simple upload stream but I suspect you will eventually want some sort of review process to check for missing and duplicated pages. </SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:04:00 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-a-suggestion-about-how-to-implement-unusual-behaviour/m-p/231344#M184474 mrogers 2013-10-21T15:04:00Z Re: Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-a-suggestion-about-how-to-implement-unusual-behaviour/m-p/231345#M184475 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>er.. how about this one &lt;a href="</SPAN><A href="http://www.keepautomation.com/products/net_barcode_reader/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.keepautomation.com/products/net_barcode_reader/</A><SPAN>"&gt;barcode reader&lt;/a&gt;, i heart it's free. </SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Nov 2013 02:13:46 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-a-suggestion-about-how-to-implement-unusual-behaviour/m-p/231345#M184475 cindy313 2013-11-13T02:13:46Z Re: Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-a-suggestion-about-how-to-implement-unusual-behaviour/m-p/231346#M184476 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>how long does the &lt;a href="</SPAN><A href="http://www.keepautomation.com/products/net_barcode_reader/barcode_interleaved25.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.keepautomation.com/products/net_barcode_reader/barcode_interleaved25.html</A><SPAN>"&gt;barcode reader project free trail&lt;/a&gt; supports?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Jan 2014 03:52:26 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/need-a-suggestion-about-how-to-implement-unusual-behaviour/m-p/231346#M184476 lucy 2014-01-24T03:52:26Z