You are viewing limited content. For full access, please sign in.

Question

Question

How to configure Last Page Identification Example in Help Files

asked on October 24, 2024

I don't use Quick Fields often, but found an Example in the Quick Fields help files that is a great example of something I am wanting to do.

We receive a PDF document that can be a couple thousand pages long. This PDF is actually multiple reports saved as one file. Each report has Page X of Y in the top right corner. In the help files here, the last example is about how you can read X and Y to determine the last page, but it doesn't show how the different processes should be configured for this to work. So far I have been unsuccessful. Does anyone have any details of how this should be done?

We are using Quick Fields 11.0.2303.30119

0 0

Replies

replied on October 24, 2024

The configuration I've pasted below worked for me, though it requires the page numbers to be in exactly the same place on each document.  A more robust solution for getting the page numbers would be using a large zone + regular expressions (to allow for the page or numbers being shifted a little).

One subtle thing about Last Page Identification is that when you have it configured like this, the First Page Identification steps are skipped until the current, identified document is complete (by satisfying the Last Page Identification conditions).  Also, if a page limit is set, that will be enforced before Last Page Identification is run and can also "complete" a document.

Also, the tokens from other processing steps (e.g., Page Processing) are not available in Last Page Identification--I don't recall the reason for this, but it appears to be the case.  However, if you've performed full page OCR on the document in a previous step (e.g., Pre-Classification Processing or Page Processing) and configure your Zone OCR to "Use existing text", it will use the OCR results and not re-OCR that part of the document (for a minor speed boost).





2 0
You are not allowed to follow up in this post.

Sign in to reply to this post.