Capturesco™ Start up Guide

Author: Rami Khader Date: 23/03/2010

Version: 2.0 Draft

Table of Contents Table of Contents...................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction............................................................................................................................... 3 End Users .................................................................................................................................. 4

Capturesco prerequisite..................................................................................................... 4 Starting up with Capturesco.............................................................................................. 4

Developers ................................................................................................................................ 5 Future Plan................................................................................................................................ 6

Introduction Capturesco is an open source tool used to scan/capture documents and pictures by using scanners and Cameras and upload them directly to Alfresco. The tool is developed by calling Alfresco Web Services; all codes are re-written in C# using Visual Studio 2008. The tool can handle the scanners with their native TWAIN drivers installed or directly connect to it. The tool was tested on Alfresco Lab 3.x without any problem I targeted two types of audience, developers who want to extend the functionalities of this tool or build other tools based on it and end users who will use the tool for scanning and capturing documents and upload them to Alfresco. This document only target Capturesco version 2.0 and at the end of this document I wrote a list of features I am planning to add them to upcoming version of Capturesco.

End Users End users are the users who want to scan or capture documents/images and upload them to Alfresco using Capturesco without any change in the functionalities.

Capturesco prerequisite • Alfresco Lab version 3.x installed and configured • Visual Studio 2008 (You can user the Express Edition) • .Net Framework 2.0 or 3.5 • Web Service Enhancement 3.0 (WSE 3.0) installed • Registering wiaaut.dll (e.g. rgsvr32 c:\wiaaut.dll)

Starting up with Capturesco If you only intend to test Capturesco on the same machine is installed on, you only need to run the tool directly from the bin folder in capturesco2\TWAINCapture\bin\Release. If Alfresco is installed on different machine, you have to open the solution with Visual Studio and change the web service references from localhost to machine name and compile the whole solution. How to Scan: Just follow the red number and you will be able to scan

Developers I tried to document the code as far as I can to make readable for any developer want to modify the code. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me via my blog www.vrami.net or via email rami223@gmail.com

Future Plan Currently I am studying the possibilities of increase Capturesco features, these ideas that I’m looking on:

• Make Capturesco a ready package for the end user to install it and use it • Connect to Alfresco Web service on the runtime (if it is possible) or by using CMIS • Create spaces directly from Alfresco • Modify the Content Model for the scanned document • Add more languages in addition to the English (Arabic and French)