Adding a Kingfisher job as a Nutrient document automation server step (legacy integration)

Kingfisher is a PDF data extraction tool that uses the text or barcode information found in PDF pages to perform different operations like:

• Renaming PDF files based on text matching or barcode information
• Splitting PDF files based on text matching or barcode information
• Extracting pages from PDF files based on text matching or barcode information
• Extract content from PDF files to TXT or CSV files Nutrient Document Automation Server is a document processing product designed to fit into an organization's document workflow. It can process and convert a variety of different types of document including TIFF images, Microsoft Office documents and HTML pages, convert those documents to searchable PDFs and perform a variety of other customizable activities. Nutrient Document Automation Server has the infrastructure to run jobs in an automated fashion, these include “watched folders” and “scheduled tasks.”

Business problem

The table below shows you an overview of the features provided in the two products.

A scenario exists where a user will want to perform the operations provided by kingfisher while taking advantage of the document workflow architecture of Nutrient Document Automation Server. As a result, we have made it very easy to integrate the two products together.

Integrating Nutrient Document Automation Server and Kingfisher

To integrate the two products, you will have to perform the steps below:

• Create kingfisher Job and save it.
• Add and configure the “Kingfisher Job” step on Nutrient Document Automation Server

Creating a Kingfisher job

The image below shows a pdf file with a Barcode in the top left corner of the pages. We are going to create a kingfisher job to rename all the files in an input folder to the value of the Barcode.

Before starting, make sure you are using a version of Kingfisher that is the same or higher than “1.1.170907”

Click the “add new job” button

This will launch the “Create new Job Wizard” shown below

Click next to enter the “job definition”

Set up the job as shown in the table below

Click next to go to the “file naming” tab

Kingfisher gives you the ability to add different variables to your output file name, for this example we will use “%VALUE1 percent_%DATE%” which is the value of the Barcode extracted and the current date.

Click next until you reach the “finish” tab

We will skip the “Advanced Settings” Tab in this example. You can use this tab to provide extra settings for the job like metadata, security and OCR setting. The finish tab will show you the summary of the job you just created

Click the “save job” button to create a new job.

As you can see you have successfully created a job with Job ID “10000”

These steps show you how to create a simple Kingfisher job, you can visit this link below for some sample videos on how to create more advanced jobs in kingfisher. king-video.asp

Add the Kingfisher job to Nutrient Document Automation Server

Before starting, make sure your version of Nutrient Document Automation Server is higher or same as version 4.1

Create a new job

To do this navigate to the “Job Manager” tab and click on the “Create New” button

Enter the job details in the “designer tab”

Save and run your new job

Review the job outputs

The diagram below shows a side by side comparison of “Source” and “Destination” Folders.

Remarks

This blog shows you a very basic scenario where you will need to integrate Kingfisher and Nutrient Document Automation Server, you will need to learn how to use the two products to fully maximize their potential. Use the links below to find out more about Kingfisher and Nutrient Document Automation Server