Configure a Document conversion activity

Use the following procedure to configure a Document conversion activity.

Add an activity to the map.

By default, the Configuration tab is open in the properties panel of the activity.
Change the default Name of the activity to something meaningful.
On the Type list, select Capture > Document conversion.
On the Input document/folder list, select a variable to configure input for the Document conversion activity.
When you select any of the following options in the Document conversion profile, you must only select a folder variable and not a document variable.
- Enable Portfolio PDF extraction
- Enable ZIP extraction
- Concatenate multiple PDF files
On the Conversion profile list, select a profile for document conversion.

It is mandatory to select a document conversion profile.
To convert the password protected PDF files to TIFF or PDF or PDF/A, on the Password list, select a list of passwords.
- To avoid any potential security concerns, a synchronous process in the TotalAgility map must include the Dynamic complex variable containing the passwords and the SDK method to encrypt the passwords. To configure this, you must do the following:
  1. Create a custom node that will populate a dynamic complex variable with a list of plain text passwords.
  2. Add a separate node to call the EncryptStrings method in ServerService service to encrypt the array of plain text passwords.
  3. Pass the encrypted array to the Document conversion node as Dynamic complex variable.
- TotalAgility does not support conversion of password protected PDF Portfolio and ZIP files.
The document conversion node tries to open the PDF with the provided passwords until it succeeds. If none of the passwords match, the document conversion fails.
Select Save page PDF data.

The original PDF source file splits into single page PDF files and these page PDF representations are saved on page level as binary extensions. This allows to preserve additional data stored in PDF file.
Save the process map.