Processing and text extraction of Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF files, HTML files and other electronic documents.

Change the Dictionary Separator Value

This is used to change the dictionary separator value when doing thesaurus matching from the default character of | to any character(s) that you want. This can be useful in cases where the values you would like in your list or dictionary might include the pipe character or “|” or “Shift Backslash” This setting is
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Regular Expression (RegEx) – Syntax or Type

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Regular Expressions reference. SimpleIndex uses the .NET regular expressions library. .NET uses the JavaScript/ECMAScript regular expression syntax format. For more information see the Regular Expressions Wiki Page.
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Check and Repair All PDF Files

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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Keep Pages in Original Order when Bookmarking

If you want to keep all the pages in the same order that they were imported, even though they all go with different bookmarks then do the following. 1.  Open the configuration in Notepad.2.  Search for <BOOKMARK_PAGE_ORDER>3.  Change this line from “false” to “true”:  <BOOKMARK_PAGE_ORDER>true</BOOKMARK_PAGE_ORDER>4.  Save and close.
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Do Not Combine Pages to 1 Bookmark

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete PDF Bookmarking reference. If you want to keep pages in bookmarks separate instead of combining them into a single bookmark when the same bookmark value is found in several interspersed images in the batch do the following: 1.  Open the Job Configuration file in Notepad.2.  Search for this value:  <BOOKMARK_PDF1>3.  Enter
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Can I split a PDF based on bookmark values?

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the PDF Bookmarking reference. SimpleIndex can create PDF files with bookmarks based on the index data captured in your batch. Going the other way–splitting an existing PDF file based on the bookmark value–is not a built-in feature of SimpleIndex. However there are inexpensive command line utilities that you can integrate with
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Is it possible to search for and retrieve documents with Windows desktop search?

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Searchable PDF reference. Windows Search works great with SimpleIndex because all index data can be saved to the folder and file names as well as the file properties, and OCR text can be saved to hidden layers in PDF files. Windows Search will read all of these elements
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Can SimpleIndex read bar codes from existing PDF files?

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
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Is there a way to just use part of a bar code or OCR value? For example, extract “50” from the value “124450”

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Bar Code Recognition reference. To do this example, create a barcode field (Field 1 for example) and a 2nd field with type “Fixed”. In the template for the 2nd field, enter %FIELD1[5,2]% to get “50” from “124450”. %FIELD1% would get the entire value for Field #1, the barcode
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How do you configure OCR to read index information from MS Office or PDF documents?

SimpleIndex can just read
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Can SimpleIndex create searchable PDF Image+Text files with hidden text?

Yes, it can.  You can configure this setting in the Job Settings Wizard by going to the OCR step and checking “Enable full-page OCR”.  There are many settings in the OCR step that you can used to customize the output and recognition of images. SimpleIndex has two different OCR engines (Standard and Professional) that can
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