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Access Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 Bucket via REST

Pre-requisites

Settings required in AWS

Create a table inside Amazon DynamoDB with the following values:

Field Value Type
Table name TungstenImportConnector (use same casing) N/A
Partition key FolderLock (use same casing) String
Sort key N/A (leave it empty) N/A

Settings required in Message Connector configuration

  1. Open the Message Connector configuration tool.
  2. Go to Advanced > View/Edit configuration.
  3. Click Advance.
  4. Go to Security options > Folder input base directory.
  5. Add https://*.s3.*.amazonaws.com/* as the last entry inside the Folder input base directory box.
  6. Click Save.
  7. Click Restart service.

    The Amazon S3 entry is listed in the Message Connector Configuration tool.

Watched folder configuration

Use this procedure to configure folder import settings to access files from Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 Bucket using REST (REpresentational State Transfer).

To get the watched folder URL in Amazon S3, navigate to the bucket that contains the watched folder, select the check box of the watched folder you want to configure, and then click Copy URL. Paste the URL in the Watched folder url box in the Folder import settings window.

  1. Start KC Plug-In configuration by one of the following ways:

    • On a Kofax Capture Network Server remote site, start KC Plug-In from the KIC - Electronic Documents group in the Windows Start menu.

    • On other Kofax Capture installations, start Kofax Capture Administration and select Electronic Documents > Configuration.

  2. Connect KC Plug-In to a Message Connector or edit one of the existing connections. See Add a connection.
  3. In the Connection configuration window, click Add and select Folder import.

    The Folder import settings dialog box is displayed.

  4. Enter a descriptive Display name.
  5. In the Poll cycle in seconds field, specify how often should the folder be checked for new documents. The maximum value is 86400 seconds, that is, 24 hours.
  6. Select Storage type as AWS S3 Bucket via REST to access the cloud folder location.
  7. In the Watched folder url box, enter the URL to access the watched folder on Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 Bucket.
  8. In the Access Key box, enter the access key of the AWS user.
  9. In the Secret access key box, enter the secret access key of the AWS user.
  10. Click Test folder import to verify that Kofax Import Connector can connect to the specified watched folder.
  11. Click OK to close the connection configuration window. Restart the KC Plug-In service.

    The Folder import settings > Advanced > Delete empty folder structure option is not supported since Amazon S3 has a flat structure with no folders and all objects are arranged at the same level.