mvscan actions
The mvscan action library contains actions that control how a Datacap application ingests files such as images scanned as TIF images or electronic documents such as PDF, so they can be processed. Use these actions to create batches from files on disk, typically on a network file share. The input files may be image files produced by a Multifunction Device (MFD) or fax, or arbitrary files selected for processing.
Mvscan actions can safely run in multiple threads or processes, on a single computer or on multiple computers. These instances coordinate with each other by creating *.lock files in the input folder. mvscan scans one or more folders within a single subtree and maintains a cached list of files for ingestion, for performance and to reduce load on the network and file system.
In a typical situation, the mvscan actions would monitor a directory, or set of directories, looking for files that are placed into these directories by some external process. As the images are placed into these directories, they are ingested by the scan actions into a batch and then processed by a Datacap application. External processes that place files in the input folders must never overwrite an existing file.