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ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide Table of Contents Introducing ABBYY FlexiCapture ............................................................................................................ 3 ABBYY FlexiCapture architecture ......................................................................................................................................... 3 Express Installation and Setup ..........................................................................................................
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide Introducing ABBYY FlexiCapture ABBYY FlexiCapture is a highly scalable platform for intelligent data and document capture which can be successfully used to extract data from unstructured as well as structured paper documents, scans, e-mail messages, and other sources for subsequent use in document management systems.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide Client components: 1. Administration and Monitoring Console is a web application that is used for setting up ABBYY FlexiCapture and monitoring its operation. 2. Project Setup Station is used for setting up document processing. 3. Processing Stations: o Automated Processing Stations import and process images, perform optical recognition, run user scripts, export extracted data to the user's storage system, and perform a number of service operations.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide · License Server - 3020 · Processing Server - 10024 · Processing Stations - 10025 See also: How to change the ports used by ABBYY FlexiCapture. Express Installation and Setup Important! This section describes installing and setting up ABBYY FlexiCapture on a stand-alone computer for evaluation and demonstration purposes. Distributed installation is recommended for industrial document and data capture. System requirements CPU Operating System 2.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide Other requirements A scanner with TWAIN, WIA or ISIS support Installation Important! Before installing and setting up ABBYY FlexiCapture, be sure to disable UAC (User Account Control). Alternatively, you can install Application Server using the built-in administrator account. To install and set up the server components of ABBYY FlexiCapture, you must first install Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft .NET Framework, and Microsoft SQL Server.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide 3. When installing Microsoft SQL Server, specify the following: o Named instance : e.g., SQLExpress; o Authentication Mode : Mixed Mode (SQL Server authentication and Windows authentication); o The password for the SQL Server system administrator (sa) account and SQL Server administrators. Installing servers To install ABBYY FlexiCapture servers: 1. On the Autorun menu, click 2. Distributed Installation → 2.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide Setup To set up ABBYY FlexiCapture: 1. Open the Administration and Monitoring Console under a user account that has administrative privileges. Use one of the following two methods: · Click Start → All programs → ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 Servers → Administration and Monitoring Console or · Click this link: http://localhost/FlexiCapture12/Monitoring/#Settings/DbConn Click Settings → Application Server and then click the Create new database button.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide 3. Upload a project to the server: 1. Launch the Project Setup Station (click Start → All Programs → ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 Stations → Project Setup Station). 2. Open a local project (click File → Open Project...). Note: You can select any of the sample projects stored in this folder: %public% \ABBYY\FlexiCapture\12.0\Samples. 3. Upload the project to the server (click File → Upload Project to Server...).
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide 1. The size of page images. Note: Images size depends on paper size, scanning resolution, and scanning mode (i.e. whether the image has been scanned in black-and-white, grayscale, or color). 2. The number of automated processing stations. 3. The number of operators involved in document processing. Note: There are two main types of operators — scanning operators and verification operators.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide to install ASP.NET 4.5. You can look up the version of your .Net Framework in the registry. Please visit this Microsoft web page for detailed instructions. 2. Microsoft Office (version 2007 or later) or LibreOffice (version 4.0 or later) 3. A scanner with TWAIN, WIA or ISIS support Installation 1. On the Autorun menu, select Standalone Installation and follow the instructions of the setup wizard. 2.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide · Click Start → All Programs → ABBYY FlexiCapture 12. → Operator Station to start the program in operator mode. To create or open a project, perform one of the following three actions on the Administrator Station: · Create a new project (click File → New Project…). Create or import at least one Document Definition (click Project → Document Definitions). · Open a sample project from %Public%\ABBYY\FlexiCapture\12.0\Samples).
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide Note: To ensure that Internet Explorer 11 works correctly, install .NET Framework 4.5 on the computer with the Application Server or add the address of (to open an application server to the list of websites that are opened in compatibility mode. Administration and Monitoring · Mozilla Firefox 50 or later (32-bit) Console) · Google Chrome 55 or later (32-bit) 1. The computer where the server is installed must be connected to your domain 2.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide Other stations: 4 GB (including 2 GB for installation) 1. A scanner with TWAIN, WIA or ISIS support 2. Video card and display with a resolution of 1024×768 Other requirements 3. The computer where the station is installed must be connected to your domain 4. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or later 5. Microsoft Office (version 2007 or later) or LibreOffice (version 4.0 or later) HTML 5 Web Stations (new) CPU Operating System 1.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide Note: To ensure that Internet Explorer 11 works correctly, install .NET Framework 4.5 on the computer with the Application Server or add the address of an application server to the list of websites that are opened in compatibility mode. Note: The Metro-style version of Internet Explorer 10 that comes with Windows 8 is not supported. · Mozilla Firefox 50 or later (32-bit) Security settings for Mozilla Firefox: 1. Java scripting = Enable 2.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide RAM Disk space 512 MB · 250 MB to install a browser and a SilverLight · An additional 31 MB is required to install the ABBYY Scanning plugin for the Web Scanning Station and the Web Capture Station. · Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Browser security settings: Internet Explorer medium-high protection level. Detailed required settings for Internet Explorer: 1. Run ActiveX controls and plugins = Enable 2.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide 3. For Web Scanning Station and Web Capture Station: a. A scanner supporting the TWAIN interface. WIA scanners can be accessed from the station but they may not operate properly b.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide ABBYY Scanning plugin OS Permissions UAC EXE No User Administrator Windows 10 User Recommended No Recommended No Recommended No Note: To allow the ABBYY Scanning plugin to be installed on Windows Server 2012, run the executable file Setup.exe as Administrator or change the security policy by setting the value of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer DisableMSI to “0”.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide 1. Video card and display with a resolution of 1024×768 Other requirements 2. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or later ClickOnce Scanning Station CPU 2 GHz or faster Operating System · Windows 7 SP1 · Windows 8.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide o VMWare Workstation (any version) o Hyper-V (any version) Note: Hyper-V version corresponds to the version of the operating system. Under Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V 6.0 is used. Note: Hyper-V virtual machines do not work with USB devices. o Oracle VirtualBox (any version) o VMWare ESXi (server included with VMWare vSphere, any version) 2. Virtual platforms imitating workplaces / applications: o VMWare Horizon 5.2.0 o Citrix XenApp 6.0 3.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide Web Management Tools · · IIS 6 Management Compatibility o IIS Scripting Tools o IIS 6 WMI Compatibility o IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility IIS Management Console World Wide Web Services · · · Application Development Features o .NET Extensibility o ASP.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide o Web stations, which allow operators to connect to the server and process documents in the browser window, without installing ABBYY FlexiCapture on their machines. If required, ABBYY FlexiCapture servers can be installed on different computers. To do this, in the Setup Type dialog box clear the boxes next to the servers that you do not want to install on this computer. When installing servers on different computers, note the following: 1.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide 1. If Processing Station is selected, a dialog box will appear, where you must select the account under which the Processing Station service will run. By default, the service runs under the NETW ORK SERVICE user account. If you plan to import/export data on this station from/to a storage location with restricted user permissions, or if this station is not in the domain, you can specify the user that has the appropriate permissions.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide where: 1. ApplicationServer stands for the Application Server 2. WebStations stands for web stations 3. ProcessingServer stands for the Processing Server 4. ProtectionServer stands for the Licensing Server Example: Setup.exe /qn /L1049 /vADDLOCAL=ApplicationServer,WebStations This set of commands will install the Application Server and web stations and Russian will be used as the GUI language.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide Additional command line options /L disables the automatic selection of the GUI language and installs the program with the interface language of your choice. The following language code values can be specified: 1033 English 1049 Russian /V passes the command line directly to msiexec.exe.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide · For a 64-bit system HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall The product ID can be found in the key that corresponds to the name of the product). Alternatively, execute this command: wmic product where “Name like ‘%FlexiCapture%’” get Name, Version, IdentifyingNumber Setup After you install the server components, the License Manager utility and the Administration and Monitoring Console will be started automatically.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide If you are already connected to another database, you will need to close the existing sessions prior to creating a new database. If, for some reason, this is not possible or necessary, add the following key into the web.config file that is located at \: In this case, a new database will be create
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide o Select the Use external file storage option and specify the path to the file store. The file store stores binary data, such as images to be processed, project settings, captured data, etc. The speed of communication between the Application Server and the file store greatly affects the overall performance of ABBYY FlexiCapture. For this reason, we recommend placing the file store on the same disk as the Application Server.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide When you create a database, the following settings will be enforced: 1. If Database Server Authentication is used, the database is created under the user account specified on the Service → Application Server page of the Administration and Monitoring Console. If Windows authentication is used, the database is created under the user account under which the browser with the Service → Application Server page is running.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide used for creating the database in step 1 can be deleted from the database server if necessary. 4. Once the database is created, the user name and the temporary password password will be displayed. Important! The user will need to change the temporary password on the login page (http:///FlexiCapture12/Login). Once the temporary password is changed, the user will be redirected to the Administration and Monitoring Console. 5.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide By default, the Processing Server is installed on the same computer as the Application Server and is started under the Network Service user account. In this case, the role is assigned to the Processing Server automatically and this step can be skipped. If the Processing Server role is not assigned automatically, grant the necessary permissions to the Processing Server on the Settings → Users page of the Administration and Monitoring Console.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide · Open a project created in an earlier version of ABBYY FlexiCapture. · Create a new project. Make sure that your project has at least one correct and added Document Definition for which export settings have been specified. Next, upload your project o the Application Server (click File → Upload Project to Server… and in the dialog box that opens, specify the URL server in the format http:// and authentication method).
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide displayed in the document window in the same way as such errors are displayed in ABBYY FlexiCapture 12.) Updating projects and databases created in a distributed edition of ABBYY FlexiCapture A distributed edition of ABBYY FlexiCapture works with projects that are stored in the database on the Application Server.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide a. Start the Administration and Monitoring Console of ABBYY FlexiCapture 12, select Settings → Application server, and click the Connect to existing database button. b. Specify the name of the database server, the name of the database, and the path to the file storage location which were used by your earlier version of ABBYY FlexiCapture and click OK. See Connecting to an existing database for more information about connecting to an existing database. 3.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Administrator`s guide “published” status. To publish the Document Definitions, on the Project Setup Station, select Project → Document Definitions…, then select the Document Definitions to publish and click Publish. b. Once a project has been updated, upload it onto the Application Server by selecting File → Upload Project to Server in the main menu of the Project Setup Station.
