Document conversion activity

Use the Document conversion activity to apply all the document conversion / normalization parameters configured in the document conversion profile to any document independent of the source of import.

Note
  • Use the Document conversion activity for document conversion and the Image processing activity for eVRS image processing.

  • The Document conversion activity supports converting documents (docx, excel, txt and others) to PDF, but does not support converting image files (PNG, JPEG, TIFF and others) to PDF. In such cases, use the PDF generation activity.

  • The Document conversion activity supports converting password protected PDF documents to PDF or TIFF or PDF/A, but does not support converting password protected PDF Portfolio and ZIP files.

  • The document conversion is supported in synchronous and asynchronous maps.

  • If you use Microsoft Office applications for document conversion in the Message Connector, conversion process can only run on one system at a time and the conversions of documents cannot be done in parallel.

  • Use the Document conversion activity to normalize images and then create pages for the images. You can also address issues such as scaling and orientation in the Document conversion activity and then use any Capture activities in your process map.

  • The Document conversion activity supports converting images (PNG, JPEG, TIFF and others) to TIFF.

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