User`s guide

Chapter 4:Starting Up ScanShop
32 - ScanShop User’s Guide
File Locking
For back-to-back integration with other programs such as OCR APIs, Databases,
etc., ScanShop applies file-locks to the image files. The locks are released as each
image file is completed. In this way, an application waiting to open image files
that appear in a directory can be automatically awakened by the OS when
ScanShop releases the lock. This feature is somewhat OS-dependent and may not
be supported on any particular platform.