7.2

PlanetPress Capture
PlanetPress Capture is only available in version 7.2 and higher of PlanetPress Production. It is not available in older
versions nor is it available in PlanetPress Office and PlanetPressWatch.
PlanetPress Capture is a set of tools available in PlanetPress Suite Production that enable output and input for interaction with
an Anoto Digital Pen. Anoto Digital Pens are electronic devices containing a camera, processor, memory and communication
capabilities and they can recognize their location on any paper where a special Anoto pattern is printed.
Some words and terminology of this chapter is described in more details in the "PlanetPress Capture Glossary" (page 192).
Also please take note of the PlanetPress Capture "Security Considerations" (page 196) and "General Considerations" (page
194).
The 3 steps to a PlanetPress Capture workflow
1. Creating a Capture-Ready document
This is done when creating your PlanetPress Design document. Adding one or more PlanetPress Capture fields to a PlanetPress
Design document creates a capture-ready document, which can be used in the workflow. For more information, see the Plan-
etPress Design User Guide.
2. Generating the Capture Patterns
Once your document is created, the Capture Fields Generator action task is used to apply the capture patterns to each of your
documents and send them to the printer. This printing process will consist of:
l Retrieving your data file.
l Creating metadata (See "Create Metadata Action Task Properties" (page 154)).
l Separating each individual document in the metadata (this can be done in your Design document or through the Meta-
data Level Creation action task).
l Using the Capture Fields Generator action task to generate the capture patterns (see "Capture Fields Generator Action
Task" (page 197))
l Printing your documents.
3. Capturing and Archiving
After the printed documents have been signed with the Anoto Digital Pen, the PGCfiles from the pen must be processed and
merged with the appropriate documents in the PlanetPress Capture Database. Aworkflow process that receives PGCfiles and
reads them in turn consists of the following actions:
l An HTTPServer Input task or Folder Capture task that receives the PGC.
l The Capture PGCSplitter, which separates the original PGCfiles into individual PGC files for each document.
l The Capture Fields Processor, which converts each PGCin an EPSlayer, adds this layer to the PDFin the database,
releases patterns and closes documents.
l Optionaly, a Capture Condition task to do post-processing using the Capture Fields data.
l AGet Capture Document action task to retrieve each document in the database and output a PDFfile
l Any existing output such as Output to Folder, email, ftp, etc.
PlanetPress Capture
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