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Watched Folders
In OmniPage Ultimate you can specify watched folders and e-mail inboxes
(Outlook and Lotus Notes) as job input. These allow processing to be started
automatically whenever image files are placed in pre-defined folders or arrive into
inboxes as e-mail attachments.
This is useful to have sets of files with predictable content arriving from remote
locations processed automatically on arrival, even if no-one is in attendance.
T
ypically these are reports or form-like documents that are delivered repeatedly or at recurring
intervals, for example each week or month.
To use this facility, prepare a set of folders or e-mail folders to be watched. Y
ou should not use
these folders for other purposes, not even for barcode cover page jobs. When setting up such a
job, choose Folder watching job, name it and click Next. In the dialog box that appears,
browse to the folders.
Incoming files are removed from the watched folders as soon as they are transferred to
OmniPage for processing; you should therefore arrange additional storage elsewhere if you
w
ant to retain the incoming files.
Add a watched
folder to the list
using this Browse for
Folder dialog box.
Specify an image
file type.
Add the desired folders and file types (one type or all types). Click the checkbox in front of
your selected folder to include its subfolders as well. To enable a number of file types, add the
Folder repeatedly, once for each type. Add a checkmark to watch subfolders of the selected
folder as well.
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