SimpleIndex can assign index field metadata to any type of file, not just scanned documents.
Any common images like TIFF, JPEG, GIF and PNG can be displayed, as well as PDF files and MS Office documents. Other file types can be displayed in the embedded browser or automatically opened in their native applications.
Screen scraping and OCR can be used to capture index data from third party applications automatically.
Prompt Before Appending with Identical Filename
Thursday, 26 January 2023
In some cases files will be exported from a batch with the same name as another file in the same output folder. In these cases it might be best to name the file with a different filename, instead of having SimpleIndex append to the existing file. This option will allow the software to prompt the
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Order of Import
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete File Input Settings reference. SimpleIndex imports files in alphabetical order based on the filename. When importing files that start with an A-Z letter in the filename the ordering is obvious. This can be a bit more confusing when importing files that start with numbers. When importing these file names: 1,
Enable Post-Process when Input Folder is Empty
Monday, 29 July 2019
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Advanced Settings reference. When you have multiple Job Configurations running in tandem with the Post-Process command line running one after there other there can be occasions where a Job Configuration earlier in the chain doesn’t have any images in the Input folder. When this happens a prompt occurs that must
Skip to Blank Index on Save Index
Monday, 29 July 2019
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Index & Batch Logging reference. If you would like to have SimpleIndex automatically go to the next page with a blank field and highlight that field when the Save Index button or Enter a change to the XML text of the Job Configuration is needed. This can be useful to
Forward Blank Index Fields
Monday, 29 July 2019
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Index Fields reference. To turn on the carry Forward when you blank out an index field do the following: 1. Right click on the configuration file and open with Notepad or another text editor. 2. Search for this XML value: FORWARD_BLANK 3. Set the value to true
MISSING file move with multiple files
Monday, 29 July 2019
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete File Output Settings reference. If you want to move the MISSING files from the Output folder to another folder and create multiple MISSING files then use this script for the .bat file: ren “C:\Users\dgraves.META\Desktop\Folder1\Missing.pdf” Missing-%date:~10,4%%date:~7,2%%date:~4,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%.PDF Move “C:\Users\dgraves.META\Desktop\Folder1\Missing*.pdf” “C:\Users\dgraves.META\Desktop\Folder2” This will rename the file to MISSING-DATE_TIME and then move it to another
How do I limit the number of files pulled from the input folder?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete batch processing reference. The Max File/Batch setting on the Batch Options tab lets you limit the number of files to process in each batch. In the wizard it can be found under the Advanced File Input Settings section.
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SimpleIndex creates output files with upper case file extensions but we use an UNIX-based fileserver which requires lower case file extensions. How can i change the output file extension from upper case to lower case (e.g. from .PDF to .pdf)?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Advanced Settings reference. In SimpleIndex 6, file extensions were changed to default to lower case so this should no longer be an issue. If you want to default back to upper case file extensions, you must edit the registry. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\SimpleIndex\Misc Create a String value called “UpperCaseFileExtension”
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When I use an Autonumber with single-page files, only the page number is shown in the filename and not the Autonumber.
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
This happens when the autonumber is in the same format as file page numbers. By default
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How do you select what types of files to process?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Batch Processing Stages reference. You can tell SimpleIndex what types of files it should process and which file types to ignore. This is done by clicking “Job Options” On the “Batch” tab you will find a field labeled “Input file types or mask”. These are the file types
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Can the original image filename be used as part of the output filename?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete File Output Settings reference. The input filename can be specified automatically by configuring a field of type “Filename”. The input file path may also be parsed by the SimpleIndex dictionary and template matching algorithms to extract data fields from the folder and file names.
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