topic Software VS Equipment Compatibility in Alfresco Archive

Software VS Equipment Compatibility

augustodelucena — Sat, 30 May 2015 18:31:12 GMT

Hi, Folks.I want to use the Alfresco Community version as my personal document repository by scanning pretty much every doc that I have and becoming paperless. Alfresco may be too powerful for my needs and I am thinking about some improvements in the future though. I am thinking about ordering the F

Re: Software VS Equipment Compatibility

rjohnson — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:22:38 GMT

Alfresco is the repository for your documents & Share lets you look at them & do things with them. Alfresco does not interface directly with a scanner so could either use something like Ephesoft (overkill I suspect) or, if your scanner has some accompanying software that can FTP or email or save a scan somewhere then you can use that to either FTP the result into Alfresco, email it to Alfresco or if you configure CIFS save it to a folder in Alfresco. I would use FTP its simplest.

Re: Software VS Equipment Compatibility

augustodelucena — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:27:00 GMT

Thanks, Bob! I hadn't had the chance to try it out but now I understand how does Alfresco work.

I watched a video from JPotts where he taught how to send e-mail to and from Alfresco.

Is there a way to make Alfresco consider only the attachments from an e-mail? I saw Potts demo and the whole body of the e-mail were saved in Alfresco data.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Software VS Equipment Compatibility

rjohnson — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 20:14:47 GMT

I have never tried it, that's why I prefer FTP. You just get the file straight in and nobody can spam you…….

Re: Software VS Equipment Compatibility

telesforos — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 22:30:33 GMT

You can configure Alfresco to separate the attachments from the email by using this line in alfresco-global.properties

# store attachments separate from email
imap.server.attachments.extraction.enabled=true
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