Datacap application
developmentThis tutorial introduces you to the concepts and tasks
that help you to develop your Datacap applications. Throughout
the tutorial, you develop an application to process travel documents.
Business Requirements and Application Architecture Datacap application is to define the business requirements. Datacap Studio Datacap Studio is the Datacap application development environment that provides the tools that you need to develop and test your application. Document hierarchy Datacap processes each element within the structure. Document hierarchy is also referred to as the Setup DCO.The Datacap workflow Document input Datacap works primarily with TIFF image files. So, the first activity in any Datacap workflow is to convert the documents to TIFF format and insert the documents into an input repository.Page Identification Datacap application. All incoming pages are initially assigned the default page type Other. Before Datacap can assemble those pages into documents and extract data from the pages, it must determine the correct type for each page.Rule Execution Datacap processes a batch of documents.Document assembly Datacap identifies incoming pages and assigns the correct page type by using fingerprint matching or one of the other identification methods. The next step assembles the batch of individual pages into documents according to the rules that are defined within the document hierarchy. Data recognition Data Validation Data verification Datacap displays pages to an operator for manual checking and possible correction. Data export Datacap can export data to a text file, an XML file, a database, a Document Management system, or a custom business process. The default output format is a text file, but you can use some actions to export data to a database and an XML file.Application Debugging Rulerunner Service (RRS) log and the task log. The RRS log provides detailed information about each action and is most helpful to application developers. The task log documents internal calls and is used mostly by IBM software support.Handling line item grids Datacap includes actions to handle line items grids. You define the region on the page that might contain line items and define the structure of one line item. Datacap can then scan the region and locate all of the individual line items.Smart parameters Text matching Pattern Matching Datacap pattern matching to identify pages and adjust misaligned or distorted images.Workflow automation, routing, and automatic fingerprint generation Rulerunner to monitor the job queue and run background tasks like PageID, Profiler, and Export automatically whenever batches are pending. Datacap Web Client and remote scanning Datacap Web Client Administrator and run a batch through the entire workflow by using a combination of web components and Rulerunner .Filter batches by group in the Job Monitor (Datacap Web Client) Datacap Web Client , you can filter batches by groups in the Job Monitor based on your ADSI, LDAP, or LLLDAP group authentication.Fingerprint Management Configuring content classification for XML layout block parsing IBM® Content Classification to properly parse the text blocks sent to it by the RunDecisionPlanForBlocks action.Application translation Datacap applications that is displayed in Datacap clients: Datacap Desktop , FastDoc (Job Monitor only), and Datacap Navigator . The following text can be translated: workflow names, job names, task names, shortcuts, descriptions, field names, document types, page types, and validation error messages.