Automatically identify key information needed to tag documents with metadata for searching. Apply metadata to file properties, Title, Subject, Author, Keywords and Description tags in PDF files, MS Office documents and NTFS file system properties. Read and write EXIF data in image files. Populate metadata in SharePoint and other content management systems.

SimpleIndex 10.1 with Textract!

SimpleIndex 10.1 is now available, and it adds a huge new feature — Amazon Textract! The Cloud OCR License adds the Amazon AWS Textract Cloud OCR engine to SimpleIndex, unlocking a bunch of great new capabilities: The highest OCR accuracy of any available engine, using Amazon’s massive machine learning model Handprint recognition, including unconstrained and
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Index With Non-Latin Character Sets

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Languages reference. By default SimpleIndex uses the ANSI character set to display and edit captured OCR data, index field values and full-text OCR. This works for all languages based on the Latin alphabet (English, French, Spanish, German, etc.) To index documents in other languages like Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic and
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Max List Size

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete File Output Settings reference. If you have a field that has a list and it loads very slowly then the size of the list that it loads needs to be limited. You first open the Registry or regedit.  Then you find this location:  Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\SimpleIndex\Misc Then you right click in the space
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How do you configure a field to select from a list of possible values?

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Index & Batch Logging reference. List fields are populated using a text file or database field containing the values for that list. The text file scenario will be described first. To configure a list field, go to the Index tab in the Job Options. Create a list field
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Can the values of 2 or more fields be combined in a single field?

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Field types reference. Set the Type for the field that you want to store the combined value to “Fixed”. In the template setting for that field, you can enter the keyword %FIELD#% (where # is the field number) and the keyword will be replaced with the value of
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Why does the word “MISSING” show up in filenames and index fields when the field is blank?

“MISSING” is what SimpleIndex puts for any field value used as a filename or folder name and is left blank by default. You can change this to whatever you want it to say when a field value is left blank. To do this go to the Job Settings wizard under the File menu, go to
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How do I configure the output folder and file naming scheme?

Use the Folder and Filename check boxes on the Indexing & File Naming step in the Job Settings Wizard to indicate whether field values will be used to generate subfolders or filenames. Any field with the Folder option checked will create nested subfolders for each value in the order the fields are listed. Any field
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Automatic Indexing Using Existing Data

Automatic Indexing Using Existing Data The Autofill feature of SimpleIndex is an easy way to associate many index fields with one document without retyping data that already exists in another database. Autofill uses a database lookup to retrieve records that match a key value entered by the user. Blank index fields are then filled in
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