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Importing existing TIFF, PDF, MS Office and other documents for conversion or processing.

Connect SimpleIndex to FTP Site

Monday, 03 August 2020 by Alex Stewart

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Distributed Capture reference.

SimpleIndex can import or export files that need to be or have been processed from an FTP site, but it requires that the FTP site be configured as a Windows Drive Letter.

Configuring an FTP site as a Windows Drive Letter isn’t included in Windows, so third party software is required for this. We recommend SSHFS-Win Manager for this, but any tool that will accomplish this will work.

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FastImport to Disable Automatic Processing During Import

Thursday, 27 February 2020 by Alex Stewart

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Fast Import Interface reference.

SimpleIndex has a variety of processing functions that automatically happen behind the scenes when importing documents to improve the quality and functionality of the images and processing capabilities of the software.

On some occasions these extra processing functions cause delays and conflicts or aren’t needed at all. If these processing functions are causing SimpleIndex to crash or slow down the import processing too much for a particular Job Configuration that can be turned off with a registry setting.

Follow these instructions to add this registry setting:

  1. Close out of SimpleIndex entirely
  2. Open the Windows Registry by going to the Windows Search and searching for “RegEdit”
  3. Go to this location in the Registry Folder Tree: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\SimpleIndex\Misc
  4. In the right section of the Registry window Right Click in the white space and select New>String Value
  5. Name the new key “FastImport”
  6. Open the “FastImport” Registry Key, set the value to “1” and then click OK
Automatic Data CaptureAutomatic Indexing SoftwareCommand Line InterfaceCommand-LineDocument AutomationFile IndexingUnattended Processing
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Stop/Turn Off Image Deletion when Blank is Recognized

Friday, 20 September 2019 by Alex Stewart

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Autonumber reference.

In certain cases you will need to be able to read that a page is blank, but not actually want to delete this page. This is especially useful if you want to use a page that isn’t completely blank as a document separator, where the page is always smaller than the rest of the pages in the batch. You can set-up an Autonumber increment to only go up a number when a blank page is read, but not delete that page for later processing.

To set the option to keep a page that is read blank follow the instructions below (SimpleIndex v9.0.30 and higher).

  1. Right click on the SimpleIndex Job Configuration file (.sic format) that you would like to set this option for and Edit in Notepad or another text editor of your choice. Select “Open With…” then select Notepad.
  2. Do a search for “KEEP_DELETED” until you find this:
    <KEEP_DELETED>false</KEEP_DELETED>
  3. Change the word “false” to “true”
  4. Save the Job Configuration then close the text editor.

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Disable StopFile

Monday, 29 July 2019 by Simple Software

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete File Input Settings reference.

If you have many different users running SimpleIndex on different computers saving to the same Output folder, the STOPFILE from one can cause another user to not be able to export to the folder while the original user is outputting to the folder. In this case the STOPFILE can be disabled, so this no longer happens.

This will not work if you have anyone that needs to add files to an existing file in the output folder, so make sure that won’t happen.

Instructions:

  1. Close SimpleIndex entirely
  2. Open the Windows Registry by going to the Windows Search and searching for “RegEdit”
  3. Go to this location in the Registry Folder Tree: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\SimpleIndex\Misc
  4. In the right section of the Registry window Right Click in the white space and select New>String Value
  5. Name the new key “StopFile”
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Continue with Post Process Command Line if Input Folder is Empty

Monday, 29 July 2019 by Simple Software

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete command line interface reference.

When running multiple jobs in a row or chain with the Post Process Command Line it is possible that an earlier Job in the process won’t have any files. This will stop the Job before reaching the Post Process step and cause later jobs not to run.

This can be corrected by adding an option directly to the XML text of the Job Configuration. This will tell it to keep going to the Post Process step even if there are no files to process in the Job.

Instructions:

  1. Right click on the Job Configuration file (.sic file format) and select Open With..
  2. Select Notepad or some other text file opening software.
  3. Search for this in the text of the file: <POSTPROCEMPTY>false</POSTPROCEMPTY>
  4. Change the word “false” to the word “true” in that section.
  5. false = Stop immediately if there are no files to process.
  6. true = Run the Post Process Command Line even if there are no files to process
  7. Save the file and close it.
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Check and Repair All PDF Files

Monday, 29 July 2019 by Simple Software

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete PDF reference.

You can set SimpleIndex to assume that it needs to check every PDF file and fix it.

Go to this location in the Windows Registry:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\SimpleIndex\Misc

Create a New String Value called “FixAllPDF” and set the value to 1

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How do I limit the number of files pulled from the input folder?

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 by dwilder

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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Can SimpleIndex read bar codes from existing PDF files?

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 by dwilder

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Bar Code Recognition reference.

There are 2 types of PDF files. PDFs created by scanning applications use images, while PDF files created by software or printer drivers use text. SimpleIndex can read bar codes from either type of document.

With image PDFs, SimpleIndex will use normal image barcode recognition. With text PDFs, SimpleIndex can read the value of the barcode from text (if it was created with a font) or convert the PDF to an image and read it (if the bar code is an image).

To read the barcode from text is much faster and all versions of SimpleIndex include the ability to parse the text of PDF file.

Find out more about bar code scanning on our Bar Code Scanning Guide.

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I have a scanner/copier that creates PDF and TIFF files and saves them to my file server. Can I use SimpleIndex to create a searchable CD/DVD from these files?

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 by dwilder

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Wizard Mode reference.

This feature is included in SimpleIndex at no additional cost and is called the Media Wizard.

The Media Wizard is located in the “Send” file menu and is called Media Wizard. It allows you to burn your images, indexes, a database and a free SimpleSearch viewer for just the CD or DVD. It also provides an easy way to get the maximum amount of information on the media that you want it on.

You set up the Media Wizard by pointing it to your image folder and database and you select the media that you would like to put it on. It then saves a file folder with all the files that you would need in the size of the media you are using in the location that you designate. You then burn these files using the burning application of your choice.

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How do you select what types of files to process?

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 by dwilder

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 that SimpleIndex will input files from. The default types are:

TIF,PDF,JPG,GIF,BMP,DOC,XLS,PPT,DOCX,XLSX,PPTX,VSD,DWG,AVI,MP3

To process all files, enter *

SimpleIndex will ignore any file whose extension does not appear on the list.

In SimpleIndex 6 or above you can enter file masks to filter input files. Some examples are:

abc*.pdf (PDF files starting with “abc”)
ab??ef.* (All files starting with “ab”, 2 characters and “ef”)

It is possible to have some file types open automatically in their default application. This can be done by inserting a pipe “|” into the list. Any file types after the pipe will be opened in their default application. For example:

TIF,PDF,JPG|WAV,MP3,WMV,AVI

will cause SimpleIndex to display image files and open sound and video files in the default media player.

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Can the original image filename be used as part of the output filename?

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 by dwilder

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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Is there a way to save the images when a batch is canceled?

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 by dwilder

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Batch Processing reference.

At certain points a batch will need to be cancelled before it is complete.  In this case you can save the images from the batch, but not the indexes that have been done so far in the batch.  When cancelling the batch (File>End Job or Ctrl+N) or closing the software in the middle of the batch a prompt will appear asking to Save the images to the Backup Folder.  Upon clicking Yes the files will be saved to the Backup Folder.

The Backup Folder is set per Job Configuration by going to the File menu, selecting Job Settings Wizard, going to the File Input step and expanding Advanced File Input Settings.  The Backup Folder will allow you to navigate to the folder you would like to use by clicking “Set…” or by typing the path into the field.  This is the folder that the files will go when the batch is cancelled.  The files will go to a sub-folder with the name of the folder as the date and time the batch was started.

To start a new batch with these files go to the File menu and select Resume Job.  Navigate to the Backup Folder and then open the batch folder and select the files.

The “Backup all input files” checkbox will save the files that were imported from the Input folder to the Backup Folder.  The “Move invalid files to backup folder” checkbox will move any files with a Missing field to the Backup Folder.

Related Links

  • SimpleIndex Wiki – File Input Settings
  • SimpleIndex Wiki – Global Settings Wizard
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