Legacy Documents in a new Automated Document Factory September 30, 2008
Posted by Julian Bradder in afp, automated document factory, emtex, pcl, print files, print stream manipulation.1 comment so far
Whilst there may be a major investment in bringing major documents into line with the requirements of an Automated Document Factory, there may be many documents that leave the organisation that there simply isn’t a business case for migration into a new process.
However, through the use of print stream manipulation tools, it may be possible to ensure that these documents can utilise the newly developed document creation infrastructure.
Print Stream Manipulation can be utilised to add integrity marks to documents, thus enabling a closed loop processing approach. Where certain documents need re-printing, print stream manipulation software can also selectively draw individual documents from a print stream.
Another consideration is that certain tools such as that provided by Emtex enable print stream transformation. This means that for example a PCL print stream could be converted to IBM’s AFP format. This offers much greater flexibility in the use of printers within a document production site.
There is some effort in achieving this but, the project component will look much smaller than a complete redesign and the project effort involved in doing this.
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