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Quick Fields: Seeking best way to identify the last page when what constitutes the last page may vary.

asked on August 13

Greetings,

I have a Quick Fields session that has a “Tax Form” document class.  Using the session, I process large PDF files that contain dozens of separate Tax Forms within the same PDF.

I am trying to configure the Quick Fields session where the last page of the given document class can vary.  Within the Last Page Identification, I have Zone OCR processes that that contain an identification condition that is unique to each of the three possible last pages.

  • RegLast = this page is present in every document of the document class and is almost always the last page.
  • ScheduleA = this page is present in a low percentage of the document class and is sometimes the last page right after RegLast.
  • ExtraQuestion = this page is in an even lower percentage of the document class and is sometimes the last page right after RegLast.

 

If I enable ONLY the “RegLast” Zone OCR process, the Quick Fields session will correctly create the separate Tax Forms from most of the PDF.  But since the Last Page can vary, when either the “ScheduleA” or “ExtraQuestion” is the last page right after "RegLast", the "ScheduleA" and "ExtraQuestion" pages become Unidentified Documents.

I’ve tried various Conditionals that haven’t yet worked.  I tried nesting the Zone OCR processes within the Condition, but that didn’t work, either  (when I run the session, it never recognizes any last page and creates one Tax Form with 100+ pages).

I’m not certain what approach to take to try to account for a variance in what the last page of a document class might be in a scenario above where the last page may be the always present "RegLast", but sometimes there is an additional page "ScheduleA" or "ExtraQuestion" after "RegLast". Has anyone else tackled a scenario like this?

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replied on August 14 Show version history

Hi Mr. Jeff,

We have tons of medical PDF records we process daily. These PDFs can have different amount of pages per PDF. 

My process::

1. Create a unique barcode and stamp it on the first page of each PDF. this will be your "First Page Identification". You can make this automated PDF process to stamp the barcode.

2. Load as many PDF as you like and Quick Fields will separate each PDFs via the barcode.

3. Let Quick Field Agent schedule a process task so you won't have to click a button every time you want to process each PDF.

PS. On step one, I actually created an action wizard task in Adobe Acrobat for the girls to create the job. They love it!!! It's all about automation!!!

If this is something you would be interested in creating and if you will need help let me know and I can help you get this process going for you.

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