Scanning invoice images on Datacap Desktop

You can run the APT VScan task to create a batch of invoices from the sample images that are provided with Datacap Accounts Payable. You can also set up an APT VScan task to scan images from a scanner or MFP device.

About this task

The APT VScan task uses Datacap Desktop to select a job and run a virtual scan to bring the invoice images into Datacap Accounts Payable. Datacap Accounts Payable picks up the images from the \APT\images\Input folder and creates a Datacap batch of document images for processing. Datacap Accounts Payable assigns a batch ID and creates a folder on Datacap where the documents are stored.

Procedure

Follow this procedure to scan invoice images on Datacap Desktop.

  1. On the developer workstation from the Start menu, select Datacap Clients > Datacap Desktop.
  2. Log in using the default User, Password, and Station (admin, admin, and 1).
  3. Select APT from the Applications menu.
  4. Select APT Demo VScan from the Task Shortcuts menu.
  5. At the APT Demo VScan batches - Datacap Desktop window, click Run Pending.
  6. Select the job that you want to run.
    • Demo: Uses the included single and multipage invoices
    • Demo-Dot Matrix: Uses your dot-matrix invoices that you put in the /input directory in place of the included images
    • Demo-Flex ID: Enables a task after the scanning to manually identify the invoices, typically used when a batch of multi-page invoices were scanned without document separator sheets
    Datacap Desktop scans the images for the selected batch type and displays Batch<batch ID>finished with a status of finished. The new batch is displayed in the Batch View frame.
  7. Click OK to close the APT Demo VScan batches - Datacap Desktop window.

    Datacap Accounts Payable retrieved the images from the Datacap\APT\images\Input folder and created a Datacap batch of the document images to be processed. Datacap assigned a batch ID and created a uniquely numbered folder with the name of the batch ID in the Datacap\APT\batches folder. This folder contains all of the document image-processing results for this batch of invoices, including the newly created rrsvscan.xml file.

  8. Click Run Pending to scan the images for the next batch of invoices.
  9. When you complete all of your batches, close the APT Demo VScan - Datacap Desktop window.