Alfresco Community and Kofax integration

[michalwrobel]

Our client is instrested in integrating Kofax Capture with Alfresco, although doesn't want to invest in Alfresco Enterprise yet. Is it possible to use Micro Strategies Kofax Release Script with community version (maybe buying it separately?) Unfortunately I'm not able to find any information about it on Micro Strategies site..

If is not possible what is the best way to integrate Kofax and Alfresco Community? To buy XML release script and write manually integration webscripts?

[alarocca]

Hello, since 2009 I'm a Kofax Technical Solutions Specialist Certified in Kofax Capture 8. This is the release script I did for Alfresco and work with the Community Edition:

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5699354/alfkc8-1.png[/img]

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5699354/alfkc8-2.png[/img]

I have also a demonstrative video that shows the full process.

If you are interested, you can send me a private message.

Best regards, Alessandro

[heiko_robert]

Hi Michael,
we tried all these existing solutions and ended up in using a customized XML-Release Skript in our solutions. This is much more robust and flexibel for us.

Once the XML+PDF is stored in a special input Space in Alfresco we parse the XML using javascript to
- validate/format the values
- specialize doc type
- add aspects
- set required metadata
- file doc as defined in the file plan

I can recommend http://www.ic-solution.de if you need any assistance in getting the Kofax release-script running or customized.
If you need assistance to get the alfresco-part running feel free to contact us.

Regards
Heiko

[jservajean]

Hi robert,

I'm wondering what are the commonly used patterns to make sure content is available before starting the alfresco post treatment processes :

1) a repository folder which triggers a bespoke repository action on each xml file beeing added by the release script. In that case how do you make sure the corresponding pdf file has also been loaded (and can be specialized etc.) ?

2) a repository folder in which the kofax release script loads all the scanned content as xml-pdf pairs, and then calls a remote alfresco action responsible for the ecm treatment ?

3) an non-repository folder (windows folder)in which the kofax release script loads all the scanned content as xml-pdf pairs, and then calls a remote alfresco ActionExecutor wich in turn loads all the content in alfresco and adds all the metadata ?

4) other/better webscript-or-cmis/based process ?

Thanks for your help