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Create Thumbnails plugin

This plugin is used to create batch image thumbnails. Two types of thumbnails can be generated by this plugin:

  • Display thumbnails: Displayed in the Review and Validate screen, where pages in the documents are shown as thumbnails under the document name.

  • Compare thumbnails: Used by classify images plugin to classify the pages.

By default, this plugin is added in the Page Process module.

Configuration

Setting the plugin configuration

Properties can be edited by expanding the batch class and selecting Modules > Page Process > CREATE_THUMBNAILS.

Configurable properties

The following table lists the configurable properties for the Create Thumbnails plugin.

Configurable property

Type of value

Value options

Description

Create Compare Thumbnails Switch

String

  • ON

  • OFF

Default Value: OFF

Setting it to ON/OFF to determine whether compare thumbnails will be created or not. Display thumbnails are always created.

Create Thumbnails Display Thumbnail Type

String

.png

Determines in which format the thumbnail image should be displayed. This property is non-editable.

Create Thumbnails Compare Thumbnail Type

String

.tif

The format of the image type created used for comparing with the display thumbnail type. This property is non-editable.

Create Thumbnails Display Image Height

Integer

Any Integer value.

Default value: 200

Sets the height of the thumbnail image.

Create Thumbnails Display Image Width

Integer

Any Integer value.

Default value: 150

Sets the width of the thumbnail image.

Create Thumbnails Compare Image Height

Integer

Any Integer value.

Default value: 200

Sets the height of the compare thumbnail image.

Create Thumbnails Compare Image Width

Integer

Any Integer value.

Default value: 150

Sets the width of the compare thumbnail image.

Create Thumbnails output Image Parameters

String

Valid parameters for ImageMagick.

Default Value: -colorspace gray

This property is used if the user wants to input an additional parameter to be processed by ImageMagick.

Dependency

The plugin is dependent on the Import Batch Folder plugin, which copies the batch files from the UNC folder to the Transact system folder.

Troubleshooting

Error message Description
Problem generating thumbnails. Check the IM4JAVA_TOOLPATH environment variable is set correctly.