Integrating w/ Scan/Index solutions that generate data file

[shikarishambu]

I need to store OCR'ed files with appropriate document properties in Alfresco. I have created custom content model to capture the properties. However, the scan/index solution that we have cannot OCR and update the properties in the resulting file. It puts the indexed data in separate file - text or csv. what is the best way to take this data and associate with the file in Alfresco?

Thanks

[mrogers]

My first thought is some sort of program that takes your two files and uploads the image and sets the metadata.   You need to decide how it gets triggered, either by being called from a command line or as some sort of scheduled job that looks in a specific location and uploads what it finds there.  You could also use the same approach with a space in alfresco with a couple of rules.

How to architect your solution rather depends upon your business process and how scanning works, for example is it a person feeding documents and pressing buttons on a scanner or is it some sort of automated process that you can program or intercept output.   There's lots of ways to integrate with Alfresco once you decide on an approach.