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Archive Workflow - Scan PDF, Read Barcode, Create Folder and Store PDF
Relatively new with Teams (+Sharepoint) and we're trying to see if we can automate an existing paper-based document archiving workflow. Here's what we're trying to accomplish: Scan paper files ...
- Hi,
Technically this should be feasible, but you will need to make first a POC to be sure you can read the barcode from the PDFs using a PDF library (Open / third party) for that. Once you have solved the Bar Code reading, the rest of the requirements are feasibly by designing for instance a processing architecture that gets every PDF uploaded to a "Hot folder" in SPO. For every PDF file:
(1) The Bar Code is read by the business logic designed and implemented in the processsing layer.
(2) The Bar Code read is interpreted so the business logic can either decide a folder on a destination document library or doing something extra
(3) The file is moved to the destination folder
As an example of third party library that can process barcodes in PDF files: https://products.aspose.com/barcode/net/
Hope it helps!
Hi,
Technically this should be feasible, but you will need to make first a POC to be sure you can read the barcode from the PDFs using a PDF library (Open / third party) for that. Once you have solved the Bar Code reading, the rest of the requirements are feasibly by designing for instance a processing architecture that gets every PDF uploaded to a "Hot folder" in SPO. For every PDF file:
(1) The Bar Code is read by the business logic designed and implemented in the processsing layer.
(2) The Bar Code read is interpreted so the business logic can either decide a folder on a destination document library or doing something extra
(3) The file is moved to the destination folder
As an example of third party library that can process barcodes in PDF files: https://products.aspose.com/barcode/net/
Hope it helps!
Technically this should be feasible, but you will need to make first a POC to be sure you can read the barcode from the PDFs using a PDF library (Open / third party) for that. Once you have solved the Bar Code reading, the rest of the requirements are feasibly by designing for instance a processing architecture that gets every PDF uploaded to a "Hot folder" in SPO. For every PDF file:
(1) The Bar Code is read by the business logic designed and implemented in the processsing layer.
(2) The Bar Code read is interpreted so the business logic can either decide a folder on a destination document library or doing something extra
(3) The file is moved to the destination folder
As an example of third party library that can process barcodes in PDF files: https://products.aspose.com/barcode/net/
Hope it helps!