Watch folder

[strarsis]

A FTP server allows a network scanner to scan PDFs into that folder.

Can Alfresco Content Service server watch a particular folder for new files and automatically import and OCR these?

Ideally those new files would be shown in a different folder/step so someone can add some keywords/title/context to the scanned OCR'ed PDF for evern easier later retrieval.

[sanjaybandhniya]

Hi,

You can map Alfresco FTP and place your all files in that ftp mapped folder so it will automatically comes in alfresco.

[strarsis]

Thanks for the anwer!

This is great, but what if I already have a FTP server (FileZilla FTP) running that saves the inbound files into a folder, that is on the same local file system as Alfresco runs. Can Alfresco still watch that local folder?

[sanjaybandhniya]

You can try that scenario and check will it work or not.

I have not tried that type of scenarion.

Alternate way is there where you can map network drive with your alfresco and place your files within custom folder and use that.

[strarsis]

But mapping a network drive would not support file system notifications, right?

I run Alfresco Community Edition as a docker container (it runs really well), with the directory mounted into the container.