Office Automation Document Scan, Parse and Archive and Track application design

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Hi all,

I looking for ideas on building / using a windows / web based application for scanning documents ( primarily text ), parsing to text in word / pdf format and saving/archiving to a "repository" and saving some metadata on the documents in a database.

Basic workflow

A set of documents for a particular account is collected and fed through a scanner. There needs to be a way to identify beg/end of a document.

The scanned documents are stored and parsed to some text format and ready to be converted to PDF or Word etc.

The PDF/Word files are "archived" to a Folder location in a repository or even in a Database.

The name of the document / account is tracked in a Database.

Thanks for help, Paul

Posted 24-Feb-10 7:13am

Paul Chu

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Alaric Dailey · Answer 1 · 2010-02-24T13:53:00

Sounds like you are describing the beginning parts of COLD storage.

Onbase is a product from Hyland, that will do it.

Optika used to offer this, they were bought by Stellent Inc. who was acquired by Oracle. So obviously Oracle now has a product that does this. Though I can't find it at the moment. If you are looking to do it from scratch you will need something to do OCR.