7.4

l 20,000 Patterns
l PlanetPress Capture Implementation Restrictions
There are also 2 external tools that are used to communicate the pen's data to PlanetPress Workflow:
l Anoto penDirector
l PlanetPress Mobile Application
The 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).
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
l Printing your documents.
3. Capturing and Archiving
After the printed documents have been inked 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 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 Optionally, 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.
4. Managing and Post-Processing
There are a couple of things that can be done even after documents have been inked. As long as a document remains open, it
is still present in the Capture database and be used in a process:
l The Find Capture Documents input task is used to retrieve a list of documents under specific criteria.
l The Capture Condition and Get Capture Document tasks are used to effect post-processing and retrieve document from
the Capture database.
5. Error Handling
Whenever an error occurs during the Capture Field Processor phase, it is of course important to be able to handles these
errors. For this purpose, the PGC to PDF Converter task was added with PlanetPress Suite 7.4, adding the ability to quickly and
Special Workflow Types