Integrating FileDirector
Codeless Connector
Exactly as its name implies, you can link your business applications to the FileDirector Client with no coding at all. All that is required is a link between the metadata fields in the application and FileDirector, which is created using the FileDirector Codeless Connector configuration utility. With the connector, you can retrieve and scan documents from within your business application with the documents then being available in the FileDirector Windows Client. A powerful tool that takes seconds to configure.
Barcodes & ODBC Lookup
Another really neat way of automating scanning is to barcode a document with a unique value such as an order number. When the page is scanned, the value in the barcode is 'looked up' on your back end database (ie Sage, SAP etc) and the corresponding values are automatically populated into the corresponding index fields.
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Microsoft Dot Net technology with IIS
FileDirector is written in Dot Net 2.0 and uses a MS SQL or Oracle database for storing indexing information. Although not open source, this is reasonably standard technology and easy to work with. The FileDirector server components need to be installed on a server running IIS ie Windows 2003 / 2008 and FileDirector can be accessed across your LAN using simple http on port 80 or secured https on port 443.
The SDK kit is available for developers to work with and both Spielberg and partners Click2Scan Ltd can assist with any specific integration you would like undertaken.
Abbyy FlexiCapture Link
Click2Scan have written a simple application that links FileDirector to Abbyy FlexiCapture.
FlexiCaoture is the perfect tool for processing thousands of documents each day where information needs to be extracted from the page but significantly is not always in the same place.
FlexiCapture compliments FileDirector's already powerful storage and archive tools and AbbyyLink allows documents read in FlexiCapture to be pushed directly into FileDirector in a compliant way.
