18.0

Chapter 6 Watched mailboxes 83
When you reach the next panel of the Job Wizard, you set the timing instructions: a starting
time and an end time for the watching to occur. You can specify recurrences, for instance to
have the folder(s) watched only during your lunch hour (Start 12.15, End 13.05) every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, or overnight in the last three days of each month, when you
keep your computer running to collect and process monthly reports arriving from afar.
When files enter a watched folder, the program waits for approximately the interval specified
in Batch Manager Options for more files to arrive in order to process them together. When
files cease to arrive, processing starts.
To finish the watching early, choose Deactivate Job. Then you can modify the job freely.
Watched mailboxes
In OmniPage Professional you can specify watched mailboxes as job input. These
allow processing to be started automatically whenever image files of specified file
types are placed in pre-defined e-mail folders. This is useful to have sets of files
with predictable content arriving processed automatically on arrival, even if no-
one is in attendance.
The program supports watching Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes mailboxes.
Barcode processing
In OmniPage Professional you can run workflows (sets of steps and their settings)
using barcode cover pages that define which workflow should run. A barcode
cover page identifies a workflow (with workflow identifier, workflow name and
workflow steps) and contains information on workflow creation (name of the
creator, date of creation, etc.). Note that barcode processing cannot be recurrent.
There are two ways of doing barcode processing:
Scanner input:
Workflow processing is driven by placing the cover page on top of a document to be scanned
and pushing the scanner's Start button.
Image file input:
Job processing is driven by copying the barcode cover page image into a watched folder that
will receive the document images to be processed.