Software VS Equipment Compatibility

[augustodelucena]

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 Fujitsu Scansnap XI500 which I think has a reasonable price for what it offers and will meet my current needs. However, I read on the manufacturer website that their scanner does not  support TWAIN or ISIS drivers although it has a Scan button on the equipment and a Scan Manager pop-up menu on OS system tray.

I haven't installed the Alfresco software yet, therefore I don't have any clue on how it works nor how it complies with hardware, I just need to know whether the hardware I have in mind to buy will work with Alfresco or not.

Appreciate any help. Regards.

[rjohnson]

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.

[augustodelucena]

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!

[telesforos]

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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[rjohnson]

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