There are many scanning solutions that you can integrate with Alfresco. Here, we will discuss with various such options:
Any standard scanner that scans and saves the document in PDF/TIFF format to the filesystem can be integrated with Alfresco. The scanner in your remote office can be connected to a local network folder (refer to the first figure of this chapter), and the network folder can be mapped to the Alfresco repository as a space via WebDAV or CIFS.
Any scanning solution can use Alfrseco's web services to push documents into the repository. It is a very easy integration.
Alfresco supports integration with Kofax. Kofax is the world's leading provider of information capturing solutions. Their product, Kofax Ascent Capture, is integrated with Alfresco, offering customers access to a comprehensive production capture solution. This product includes automatic document classification, data extraction, and validation for both Internet-based distributed capture...