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Scan only first page of each document

Quick Fields Version 9

Updated April 1, 2014

asked on April 1, 2014

I have a good number of classifications configured that I've designed to organize documents by their first page. I'm finding that if I have a document where the first page is unidentified, quickfields scans each page in the document to see if it matches the First Page Identification conditions. For documents with a large number of pages, this can take a considerable amount of time.

Is there a way to tell QuickFields to only check the first page in a document for First Page Identification conditions? I've checked the "Keep each file as a seperate document" option, but this doesn't seem to change anything.

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replied on April 1, 2014

The best way to handle this is to have an extra document class at the bottom of the session with no conditions on it. Then instead of being an unidentified document the document will be classified as a part of that class. Then you can set the page limit to an arbitrarily high number and any unidentified document will be lumped into this class without checking conditions until that file is done being scanned.

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replied on April 1, 2014

The issue is that Quick Fields doesn't know that you only scanned a single document. What you are calling a "document" Quick Fields is seeing as a stack of pages that may contain one or more documents. This would allow you to scan several documents at once and have Quick Fields split them apart into separate Laserfiche documents. All of the "unidentified" pages would be attached to the most recent first page that was identified.

That said, I don't know of a way to tell Quick Fields to not look at all of the pages that were scanned.

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replied on April 1, 2014

I suppose that makes sense. However when my first page is identified, it looks like the rest of the pages in my files skip the scanning process and are appended to the document class. This makes me think that QuickFields must have some indication of when a file begins and ends.

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replied on April 1, 2014

It knows the beginning and end of the collection of images that were scanned, but that only coincidentally lines up with your document since you are scanning them one document at a time. Quick Fields makes no assumptions about the content of a document until it can identify something.

Quick Fields can tell you the beginning and end of a document because it looks for the first page and then looks at page #-1 and calls that the last page of the previous document. If you only scan one document at a time, then the beginning and end pages are self evident.

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replied on April 1, 2014

It can't know what the first page of a document is unless it checks to see if it is the first page of a document. I am not sure what you mean by "only check the first page of the document".

Do you mean only the first page of a scan batch?

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replied on April 1, 2014

I mean like I have three multipage TIFF files that QuickFields picks up, and I want to organize the three files into classes based on the first page in each of the TIFF files. The remaining pages are irrelevant to my identification needs.

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replied on April 1, 2014

Universal capture doesn't appear to see any file structure. It is fed all pages in TIFF format within a folder, regardless of being in independent files or in one file.

The TIFF files with all pages that do not meet any identification conditions will not have any metadata assigned or any automation above a standard import. Sounds like they don't even need to go into the QF folder. Is there any way to have these files go to another location and use import agent instead?

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