--- title: "General job options for document automation" canonical_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/general-job-options/" md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/general-job-options.md" last_updated: "2026-06-09T10:25:14.360Z" description: "Explore job control flags and parameters for seamless document conversion and processing with autobahndx.exe." --- # Efficient job control in document automation The flags below work with the **autobahndx.exe** file in the bin folder. | Parameter | Notes | | -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **/jobid** | Use this flag to run jobs that you have created in the job manager. | | **/source** | Source file or folder | | **/sourcetype** | One of: file, folder, tree | | **/target** | The Target folder | | **/output** | The output filename mask, for example, `%FILENAME`. **Note**: for some operations, such as Merge operations, the mask `%FILENAME` is not relevant and will be treated as a literal string | | **/logfile** | For example, `/logfile=”C:\logfiles\log.txt”` | | **debug** | Output additional logging | | **/onerrorcontinue** | When processing folders or folder trees, the process will by default halt when an error is found. If this is set to true, processing will continue. | | **/errors** | Define the folder where documents are placed if their conversion raised an error. | | **/createfolders** | If set to true, destination folders will be created if required. | | **/overwrite** | If set to true, existing destination files will be overwritten. | | **/advancedflags** | This enables advanced PDF Junction and TIFF Junction flags to be used, even if there is no direct equivalent in `autobahn.exe`. | | **/MaxCores** | The maximum number of cores DAS will attempt to use at the same time. | | **/nopassword** | Tells DAS what to do with pdf files that are password protected and no password is provided. - Take no action - Move to error folder - Copy to error folder | | **/operation** | This represents the operation you want to carry out, below is the list of operation available in DAS corresponding to the [Step Types](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/the-autobahn-dx-administration-tool/job-designer.md#step-types). - tifftopdf - ocrimagepdf - topdf - pdftotiff - pdfprops - mergetiff - mergetifftopdf - splittiff - tiffinfo - mergepdf - splitpdf - extracttext - optimizepdf - sharepointdownload - sharepointupload - compresspdf - pdftopdfa - getxmlpdf - ocranyfile - ocranyfileex - barcode - highavailability - DAS Content Extraction (Kingfisher) - polling - azureupload - azuredownload - stamppdf | --- ## Related pages - [Streamline tasks with the command-line interface](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface.md) - [Effortlessly merge PDFs with advanced features](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/merge-pdf--used-with-mergepdf.md) - [Create XML property file – [used with getxmlpdf]](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/create-xml-property-file--used-with-getxmlpdf.md) - [Streamline Azure file downloads with automation](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/azure-uploaddownload--used-with-azuredownload-and-azureupload.md) - [Streamline PDF text extraction with ease](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/extract-text-download--used-with-extracttext.md) - [Document automation: Convert and redact files easily](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/examples.md) - [Effortlessly convert any file to PDF with OCR](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/ocr-any-file-to-pdf-used-with-ocranyfile-or-ocranyfileex.md) - [OCR [used with ocrimagepdf or tifftopdf/ mergetifftopdf]](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/ocr-used-with-ocrimagepdf-or-tifftopdf-mergetifftopdf.md) - [Optimize your documents with extended OCR steps](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/extended-ocr-steps.md) - [[PDF to TIFF [used with pdftotiff]](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/pdf-to-tiff-used-with-pdftotiff.md) - [PDF conversion options [used with topdf operations]](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/pdf-conversion-options-used-with-topdf-operations.md) - [Sharepoint settings – [used with sharepointdownload and sharepointupload]](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/sharepoint-settings--used-with-sharepointdownload-and-sharepointupload.md) - [PDF output file settings – [used with pdfprops]](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/pdf-output-file-settings--used-with-pdfprops.md) - [Split parameters [used with splittiff and splitpdf operations]](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/split-parameters-used-with-splittiff-and-splitpdf-operations.md) - [Efficient document automation with barcode processing](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/tiffpdf-barcode--used-with-barcode.md) - [Customize PDF stamping options easily](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/stamp-pdf--used-with-stamppdf.md) - [Document conversion with the GdPicture CLI](/guides/document-automation-server/document-conversion/autobahn-dx-command-line-interface/gdpicture-steps.md)