IBM® FileNet® Capture provides the capability to add documents to the object store or Image Manager repository. You can use various document capture methods including scanning, faxing, and importing files. You can automate the document entry process to provide production-level capabilities.
You can use a wide variety of scanners from low volume personal scanners to high volume production scanners. In addition, the FaxEntry portion of the Capture product provides an automated method for automatically capturing inbound faxes. The Capture File Import capability provides a method to import existing documents from user directories.
The following diagram illustrates a simplified architectural view of Capture:
As shown in the following diagram, Capture uses a SQL Server database as an intermediate repository for batches of scanned images and indexes that are then committed to an object store. The separate database for batches allows most capture processing to be performed with little impact to performance. The diagram also shows how Capture workstations can be distributed to handle higher image throughput requirements.
The following diagram illustrates the flow of documents during the Capture process.