Rather than interpreting forms from FORMS’ internal database, you can use Interpret to interpret forms from image files.
Image files can be sent to you by a supplier, for example, or they can be produced by your scanner when you run Scan.
Many formats are supported: TIFF, JPEG, BMP, CALS, MO:DCA IOCA, PBM, PCD, PCX/DCX, PDF (separate licensing required), PGM, PNM, PPM, PSD, RAS, RLE, SGI and others. See Image file formats for exact specifications. You must choose Import image files if you chose Store forms to files without identification in the Scan job description.
Before choosing this source, read Important notes on interpreting imported image files. Also, importing image files that include appendices or sets affects Interpret statistics.
In the Job description dialog, click the Interpret tab.
Click Import image files as the form source.
Click Configure and specify the source directory and other instructions.
If the image files you want to import do not have TIFF format, choose another type from the Files of type list box. You can edit the Files of type specification.
For multi-page PDF files, you must also click Advanced and select Import multi-TIFF files. This is not necessary for single-page PDF files.
Close the Job description dialog and save the job description when prompted.
FORMS imports the image files in order of date, time and name. Interpret processes the image files one at a time. Interpret moves each image file from the source directory to a subdirectory, depending on whether or not Interpret successfully imported and identified it.
Temp directories are also created.
During interpretation, the image files in the source directory are interpreted in the order they were saved, after being sorted according to scanning date, time and name. Therefore, older files must not be saved to the source directory during interpretation.
If interpretation is unsuccessful—that is, if a file is not identified—you can use Windows Explorer to move it from the directory for unidentified files back to the source directory.
If you select Import image files and you want the transaction to contain the names of the files, include the system variable #Importfile (and #Importfile2 for a back page, if any) in the transaction description. Read more about inserting system variables into a transaction description and about accessing the full paths of image file names.
Interpreting multi-TIFF image files
Importing images from subdirectories