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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

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Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation

Overview of this book

Alfresco 4 has improved a lot with its new and advanced concepts for content management. Users have been waiting for a book that covers these concepts along with security, dashboards, and the configuration features of Alfresco 4. Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation is a well-crafted and easy-to-use book, and it is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management for your business needs using Alfresco 4. It covers the enhanced document management, integration with standard productivity tools, and various integration options with proven external applications. This book will take you through a number of clear, practical sections that will help you to make a proper decision for your business needs using standard practices with Alfresco's Document Management and various third-party integrations You will learn how to install, administer, and manage your entire application. The concepts of mapping your business documents by extending content models and achieving your complex business process using Workflow models and business rules will be discussed in this book. Integration with various third party tools like MS Office, Mobile Application, Outlook, Liferay, Ephesoft, and Kofax will also be covered. You will learn to create your own custom workflow using Activiti BPMN 2.0 Process Designer and also maintain and administrate the entire application.This book explains everything you need to know to manage your documents using standard processes and mechanisms.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Integrating with Ephesoft


Ephesoft is an open source document capturing solution. It provides automatic classification, extraction of data, and sorting scanned documents. Most important, it is web-based which makes it easy to use. It also supports the OCR/ICR engine. Ephesoft provides a complete imaging solution. Ephesoft support CMIS, using which documents can be stored in any ECM.

Let's consider our example. You have remote client offices that scan the customer details documents, OCR them, extracts metadata, and sends them over to you for approval and storage. For this, we will need integration of Ephesoft and Alfresco. Ephesoft will take care of capturing of document and extraction of metadata. Alfresco will store the document.

You are going to perform the following steps for a demo application:

  1. Install Ephesoft.

  2. Create a custom type in Alfresco.

  3. Create a custom document type in Ephesoft.

  4. Configure the CMIS plugin in Ephesoft.

  5. Process batch in Ephesoft and store documents in Alfresco.

Installing...