The short and sweet (i.e. TL;DR):
I'd like to see the possibility of having some sort of "session variable" we can populate the Quick Fields unidentified document name. (Fields would be nice too, but I don't want to ask for too much!).
In the old days of Quickfield, this was never an issue. Before we had last page identifiers if we had a 100 page document and identified a 5 page document on page 1, then identified a different document on page 37, all of the pages in between were tacked onto the 5 page document.
But now with last page identification, we have a lot more separate unidentified documents that are produced and split off from any single incoming document.
However, a new problem has come up with this in the last few projects I've worked on and there's no easy solution for:
How do you keep the unidentified documents seperate - i.e "input scan 1" from "input scan 2"?
As an example, I'm currently working on an issue with filing away a large number of documents when converting a HR dept from paper to electronic. They've given us their top 50 documents that we are identifying to file away in the proper folder, but that really only accounts for about 50% of the documents.
The process the customer wants to do is this:
- Take all documents in the customer folder, scan those in as a packet, label the packet with the employee's name/ID number/Location manually in Laserfiche, then have Quick Fields pull out all the identified documents they can. They do not want to spend hours putting in slip sheets, they'd rather split them up in laserfiche later.
So this is where the unidentified issue comes forth - currently I lose that metadata if the unidentified document is in between two identified documents.
I'd like to see the possibility of using a session token (such as the original name of the input document) as a token to name the document. This way I can leverage workflow to recover that original information. I think this would also be handy if you run into a situation where page 1 of a scan might be a header section that contains basic metadata about all of the other pages inside a scan, but you can't pass that information down to the unidentified sections of that scan.