The Datacap standard workflow
The standard workflow that is generated by the Application Wizard includes three job types.
- Main Job: This is the standard workflow for processing documents.
- Fixup Job: This job is used only when there are document integrity problems and displays the batch to an operator for corrective action. For more information, see the Document-integrity problem management topic.
- Web Job: This job is like the Main Job, but it defines the workflow for jobs that are initiated exclusively from the Datacap Web Client. It supports remote scanning and allows users to upload new batches to the server.
The workflow for the default Main Job includes five tasks: VScan, PageID, Profiler, Verify, and Export. Each task is linked to a task profile.
Descriptions of each task are provided.
| Task Profile | Description |
|---|---|
| VScan | A virtual scanning profile that inserts pages into your application by copying images files from a specified location. |
| Upload | Used with remote scanning and virtual scanning through the Datacap Web Client interface, the Upload task is required for uploading images from remote scanning stations to the batch folder on the Datacap server. |
| PageID | Identifies the incoming pages by comparing them to known page types by using fingerprint matching. Depending on the identification method used, this profile might use full page OCR. It might also clean up the image. |
| Profiler | Organizes pages into documents, locates the fields that are defined for that page type, and uses OCR to recognize the field data (or obtains the data from the full page OCR results). Also runs validation rules to ensure that the data is valid. |
| Verify | Runs during the verification stage, when pages are displayed to an operator to ensure that recognition was accurate and to handle any validation errors. |
| Export | Exports the structured document data to an output file, a document management system, a database, or an external business process (can also include the original image). |
In addition to the task profiles that run as part of the Main Job workflow, there are two other important task profiles that the Application Wizard generates: FingerprintAdd and ImageFix.
| Task Profile | Description |
|---|---|
| FingerprintAdd | Generates the fingerprint files when you add new page types to the application from the Datacap Studio Zones tab. |
| ImageFix | Runs when you enhance a fingerprint image by using the Image Processing window from the Zones tab. |