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Scanning straight into Alfresco??

vchohan — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:19:30 GMT

Hi,Do you know if there is a module or something that can scan straight into alfresco.. instead of scanning it to a folder and then importing the data in??

Re: Scanning straight into Alfresco??

rbelisle — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:45:21 GMT

If you scan directly into a CIFS mounted folder, then you are 'putting it right into alfresco' already. If you want to associate metadata and then put it in, Kofax has a release script that will do that, or you could build something pretty easily…

Re: Scanning straight into Alfresco??

vchohan — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:03:21 GMT

Where can i find this CIFS folder i have tryed searching for it but i cant find it. Sorry to be ignorant, but i have just recently started playing around with it.

Many thanks for the reply.

Re: Scanning straight into Alfresco??

rbelisle — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:50:50 GMT

You should be able to see the server exposed when you browse your 'network neighbourhood' (I'm assuming you're using a windows client). There should be a server called 'YOURSERVERNAME_A'. The _a being the alfresco CIFS shares. You should be able to browse through the folders/spaces from there. You can map this to a drive if you want and simply copy into the folder.

Re: Scanning straight into Alfresco??

czierleyn — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:07:28 GMT

With Kofax Ascent Capture you can release directly into Alfresco. There is a release script based on web services developed by Aarden Ringcroft that works just fine.