Document separation: Overview

Document separation is INVOICES' ability to recognize where one multi-page invoice ends and where the next one begins when the invoices are scanned together using batch mode. INVOICES does this by either detecting the blank pages that you insert between the invoices, or via barcodes, which are usually printed on the first page.

Using Manager, open an existing job description or create a new one.
In the General settings under Scan, select Use batch mode.
In the Pages settings, select Multi-page invoices or invoices with appendices, as well as whether invoices will be separated using blank pages or barcodes.

Using Manager, open an existing job description or create a new one.
In the General settings under Interpret, select Use batch mode.
In the Source settings, select Import invoice image files.
Click Configure and specify the location of the Source directory.

When this job is run, INVOICES looks for subfolders in the source directory. Each subfolder becomes a separate batch. If no folders are found, no batches are created.
Click Advanced and select Import multi-image files and then Multi-page invoices or invoices with appendices.

Using Manager, open an existing job description or create a new one.
In the General settings under Interpret, select Use batch mode.
In the Source settings, select Data source extension and then DOCUMENTS Input.
Click Configure and specify the Source directory for the DOCUMENTS XML file, which lists the invoices and their location.

When this job is run, INVOICES reads this XML file to locate the invoices and then it processes them.

Important: See Interpreting documents from DOCUMENTS for more information.

Correcting document separation

When multi-page invoices are incorrectly separated, you can use the Re-separate feature in Verify to:

Multi-image options (describes document separation in multi-image files to be imported)