Scanning feature in Alfresco community edition?

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user1700502 picture user1700502 · Apr 16, 2013 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

I am working on to the alfresco 4.2 community addition.now i have to use the some kind of Scanning feature to scan the hard copy of the document and upload.

I have googled but haven't found any good solution.

Answer

Heiko Robert picture Heiko Robert · Apr 17, 2013

Additionally to Alfresco you need a so called capture software which handles the scanning, converting to a PDF, OCR and the filing to Alfresco. There are several solutions available in in the market in different quality with different concepts.

Here a (not complete) list of working solutions I know of in the order of costs:

  • Quikdrop (Client-Installation): simple .NET-Client with Scan-Client, PDF-Conversion, OCR and limited Metadata-Support
  • Kofax-Express with Alfresco-Connector from ic-solution (Client-Installation): professional Capture Client supporting barcodes, scan optimizations, guided metadata extraction, validations, delivery to Alfresco supporting document types & metadata
  • Ephesoft (Server-Installation): web based capture solution available as a community, cloud and commercial version
  • Abbyy Flexicapture (Server-Installation): Local Capture Clients with a central Capture / Transformation and Extraction Service
  • Kofax with Alfresco-Kofax-Connector (Server-Installation): Local Capture Clients with a central Capture / Transformation and Extraction Service

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