Image Processing activity

Use the automatic Image Processing activity to process images that are imported and images that are scanned from an MFP.

If a process has an Image Processing activity, it is applied to all documents that the job gets created for irrespective of the way selected for creating the job (MFP, Web Scan, Scan Create New Job, Upload, Import, Mobile and the rest). For example, if you scan 10 documents or upload them or import them upon job creation, all of them are processed by an Image Processing activity if there is one in the job’s process.

To process images that are scanned from an MFP, you must add the Image Processing activity to the map. If this activity is the first activity in a process that is started by a Device Create New Job form, you must set the precondition for this activity to [SCANNED[ >0.

The Image Processing activity uses Transformation Server to convert documents and images into TIFF images and apply image enhancement filters. The following formats can be converted:

  • BMP

  • GIF

  • HTML

  • JPG

  • Microsoft Word in .docx (Word 2007 or later) and .doc (prior to Word 2007) format

  • Microsoft Excel in .xlsx and .xls format (versions Excel 97 through Excel 2010)

  • PNG

  • RTF

  • TXT

The Image Processing activity uses eVRS settings or image enhancement settings and parameters, such as Paper Size, Resolution, Color Mode in the Scan/VRS profile for normalization. The activity has two tasks: converting documents of all formats to tiff and normalizing all tiffs so that the resulting document is tiff and has the desired size, resolution and color depth.

Advanced eVRS settings take preference over the image enhancement settings. For example, if you enable Auto Rotate in the Image Enhancement section, but add an Advanced eVRS settings string that does not enable Auto Rotate, Auto Rotate is disabled because the presence of the string causes eVRS to ignore the image enhancement setting.

Note The Blank Page Deletion setting is an exception. The eVRS string can only enable Blank Page Detection, but if you have to delete a blank page, you must enable the Delete Blank Page setting.

Multi-page documents and TIFF files are split into separate files for each page.

Document files (Word, Excel, HTML, RTF, and TXT) are identified automatically according to their MIME type. If the MIME type is not set or cannot be recognized, the file is treated as an unknown format. If the process fails at runtime, the job is suspended and the job note is updated with a message describing the reason for suspension.

The Image Processing activity creates a record in Job History or View Job in the TotalAgility Workspace at runtime. Where applicable, the text from the source file is saved as OCR data. Multi-page documents are stored as document objects, and image files are stored at the page level. The original files are stored with the document source.

See Configure an Image Processing activity.