Keep Documents During Scan Activity

mitch

When using the Scan Activity, the Scan separates out pages when I just want to keep them as documents.  How, during a scan, can I bring documents in, but maintain a document structure and not have just loose pages?

Bradley

Use the Batch button and select the New From...File System Import option. The Scan Activity is designed for scanning or importing documents and automatically, create the loose pages. If you do not desire the loose pages, this is the option you want to utilize as it allows you to select any step as the starting step in an existing batch process.

RandoCalrisian

A Separation Profile not designed to work on character data could also be established.
For example every Nth page separates, or blank pages separate, or control sheets, or some kind of visual cue like a barcode.

Bradley

A separation profile will not prevent the Scan module from creating loose pages. It is only a means of combining loose pages into documents and/or assigning document types.

[Deleted User]

@Bradley If you have a Separation Profile that separates on page count like @RandoCalrisian suggested, it automatically separates on Scan (if the profile is specified for the Scan activity).

Bradley

@Ryan True. @mitch was asking if files could be imported without creating loose pages. Mitch just wants the native file to attached to the folder and not create pages. Using the File System Import option to create a new batch is solution.

[Deleted User]

@Bradley It sounds to me like he wants the documents to retain their structure (so, with or without having sub-pages), but importing them as multi-page files parses out all of the pages, leaving no structure.