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Setting Up ABBYY FlexiCapture Distributed Installation

Quick setup of ABBYY FlexiCapture for demonstration installations

This paragraph briefly describes a fast minimal set-up of ABBYY FlexiCapture which can be used for demonstration

installations. If you need a more detailed understanding of the ABBYY FlexiCapture settings, or if you need to perform

the installation other than the default or more performance-oriented, or if you encounter any difficulties following the

instructions of this paragraph, please go to the section “Detailed setup of FlexiCapture.”

Before you begin, make sure that all FlexiCapture servers are installed on your computer and the set of installed fea-

tures conforms to the default set in the Custom Setup dialog box of the program installer. FlexiCapture stations can be

installed either on your computer or on any other computer that is accessible over the LAN. An MS SQL database

server must also be available (you can install the MS SQL 2005 Express database server by running the Autorun.exe

file from the FlexiCapture installation folder).

1. Open the Administration and Monitoring Console (select Start -> ABBYY FlexiCapture 11 Serves -> Ad-

ministration and Monitoring Console or type the following link into the browser: http://<server

name>/FlexiCapture11Monitoring/DBConnection.aspx) and go to the page Service -> Application server.

On this page, create a new database. For this, click the Create New Database button and in the form that

opens specify the following settings:

a. Database server name, for example <computer name>\sqlexpress

b. Database name, for example FCDemoDataBase

Click OK.

Once the database is created, you become the administrator of this database.

2. Upload a project to the server. For this:

a. Run the Project Setup Station (select Start -> ABBYY FlexiCapture 11 Stations -> Project Setup

Station)

b. Open a local project (select File -> Open Project). You can choose a project from the samples lo-

cated in the folder %public%\ABBYY\FlexiCapture (or %allusersprofile%\ABBYY\FlexiCapture

for Windows XP/2003)

c. Upload the project to the Application Server by selecting File -> Upload Project to Server. The ad-

dress of the Application Server must be specified in the following format: http://<server name> (if the

Project Setup Station and the Application Server are located on the same computer, the server ad-

dress is as follows: http://localhost)

3. Configure the Processing Server. For this:

a. Open the Processing Server Monitor (select Start -> ABBYY FlexiCapture 11 Serves -> Pro-

cessing Server). Make sure that the Processing Server is started.

b. Add Processing Stations. For this, choose the Stations item from the ABBYY FlexiCapture 11

Servers -> <Server Name> tree, then select the Add Stations command from the Actions menu.

In the dialog box that opens, click Custom and enter the name of the computer where the Pro-

cessing Stations are installed (for example, localhost), or click Browse and choose desired com-

puters.

c. If images from Hot Folders are to be imported in the project, the processing of Hot Folders must be

enabled in the Processing Server. For this, from the ABBYY FlexiCapture 11 Servers -> <Server

Name> tree, choose the Hot Folders item; the project name will appear to the right. Choose the

project from the list and from the Actions menu select Enable.

Detailed setup of ABBYY FlexiCapture

How to choose the user authentication type

All components and users of ABBYY FlexiCapture 11 Distributed interact with the Application Server and must be

authenticated on the computer where it is installed. ABBYY FlexiCapture supports two types of user authentication: