topic Re: Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour in Alfresco Archive

Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour

ale_carraro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:01:56 GMT

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

Re: Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour

alisaslwe — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 06:47:46 GMT

Sorry for this late reply. I was trying the barcode reader you mentioned. But it can not work. So I download another free trial barcode reader project to read the barcode image. It is successful. But it needs to be paid. I want some free ones.

Re: Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour

mrogers — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:04:00 GMT

To manipulate PDF files have a look at PDF box. Its what alfresco uses itself to extract meta-data but you can use it to manipulate PDF documents. I had a quick look and there's a likely looking "addPage" method. And a "Splitter" class that can go in the other direction.

My thoughts are that you are over-using the "barcode". Yes its part of your solution but there's a bit of an issue with using it to group several pages together. For example there is also an issue of page ordering. Can you get any information from your scanner to batch together pages? Can you upload the pages into a folder and then run an action to merge them together? 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.

Re: Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour

cindy313 — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 02:13:46 GMT

er.. how about this one <a href="http://www.keepautomation.com/products/net_barcode_reader/">barcode reader</a>, i heart it's free.

Re: Need a suggestion about how to implement unusual behaviour

lucy — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 03:52:26 GMT

how long does the <a href="http://www.keepautomation.com/products/net_barcode_reader/barcode_interleaved25.html">barcode reader project free trail</a> supports?