Job, task, and task profile
A job is a particular combination and sequence of discrete tasks in the workflow of an application to address a specific operational scenario.
For example, a "mailroom scan job" might include the following specific tasks:
- Process large batches of credit card applications from a production scanner
- Classify and separate documents by using separator sheets
- Recognize, extract, and verify the data
- Export the applications to a content management system.
Imagine another job called “MFP scan job” with similar tasks for capturing the credit card documents from an MFP (multi-function printer). The tasks are modified to receive the documents from the MFP server, rather than the scanner. The MFP scan job classifies and separates the documents without separator sheets because each batch contains only the documents from a single application.
When a task is run, Datacap runs the rulesets that were defined in the corresponding task profile. The task profile is a sort of template that is used by Datacap as an entry point to start a task at run time.