Barcode Driven Workflows - ScanSoft OMNIPAGE PRO 14 Manual

Barcode driven workflows

In OmniPage Pro 14 Office, you can run workflows without specifying
the workflow name inside the program. You do this using barcode cover
pages that define which workflow should run. Workflows with image file
input are handled using special watched folders. In these cases, cover page
starting is available only for workflows that ask for run-time specification
of file names, because this is what the cover page provides.
To scan with a cover page
Create a named workflow in OmniPage Pro with scanner input and a
saving step. In the last Workflow Assistant panel select Print Cover Page.
Close the Assistant with Finish; a print dialog box appears ready to print
the cover page.
To use the cover page, place it on the top of the document in the ADF.
Be sure Start Batch Manager scheduler at system startup is selected in the
General Panel of the Batch Manager's dialog box. When you press the
scanner button a dialog box appears. Select OmniPage Pro 14 and then
Barcode driven workflow. This will start OmniPage Pro if necessary, it will
read the cover page and process the document underneath using the
defined workflow. It continues until the ADF is empty. If the option
Prompt for more pages is on, the program asks whether to continue with
another stack of pages or finish. Add stacks until the document is
completed. On subsequent scans you can choose whether they should be
barcode driven or not.
To read image files with a cover page
Create a named workflow in OmniPage Pro with a saving step and with
input from image files with run-time prompting for file names. In the last
Workflow Assistant panel select Save Cover Page to File. When you close
the Assistant, a system Save As dialog box lets you save the cover page for
this workflow to an image file. By default the file name is the job name
and the file type is TIFF.
Then open the Batch Manager. Use its Tools menu to open the Options
dialog box and go to the Barcode panel to define two sets of folders.
First, define one or more barcode driven input folders. These folders
should be used only for barcode driven processing. They are watched
106 Workflows