The PDF Out Plug-In allows you to output items scanned in EZ-Scan in PDF format.
To get to the option screen, highlight the PST PDF Out Plug-In in the Plug-In Mgr and click configure. PST PDF Out Plug-In does not appear in your list of available plug-ins see Installing components.
You have 3 choices for output
If you select Email all items all items in the grid will be compiled into a single PDF document and attached to an email using your default email program.
If you select Single File, all items in the grid will be compiled into a single PDF document. The user will be prompted to name and save the document to the hard drive. You can optionally check the 'Display PDF' check box to display the PDF document when complete.
If you select Multiple Files, a PDF document will be created for each item in the grid. The PDF documents will be created in the directory specified in the Path text box. If no path is specified the items will be created in the same directory as the EZ-Scan images for that batch. The directory structure used by EZ-Scan is as follows:
{Image Directory specified in Storage locations} \ {Company ID (PST by default} \ {Process Date} \ {Batch ID} \
You can specify a naming convention to use for the items created. Click the ellipsis button next to the Naming Convention text box to get a list of available fields to add to the naming convention
As you click on a field from the list of available fields a macro representing that field will be added to the Naming text box a the current cursor position. After adding fields you can edit the text in the naming text box with literal characters such as "-" or "." to divide fields. The above example will create files named like this:
account no check no
123456789-0123.pdf
837521723-8394.pdf
773332882-.0043.pdf
To duplicate EZ-Scan's standard naming conventions use {ItemNo}{DocType}.pdf as your naming convention.
The PST PDF Out Plug-In can be run from
The toolbar (the plug-in will be run against all item in the grid)
The 'Just after an item has been saved' Insert point in both Scanning and Verify (If run from either of these insert points the PDF out will only save to multiple files and will use the EZ-Scan image directory and standard naming convention (ItemNoDocType.pdf) it neither one is specified in the options. If a path an/or naming convention is specified they will be used.
The Export menu. This plug-in can also be used as an export. All options are available when used as an export.
To create a PDF for each item scanned (while scanning) do the following:
Load the plug-in in the 'Just after an item has been saved' Insert Point under the Scanning section
This will save a PDF file for each document scanned in the same folder as the EZ-Scan image created using the same naming convention as EZ-Scan, unless a different path or naming convention is specified in the options screen.
Here are examples of the .tif and the .pdf files for item number 1 in the batch above.
