Method, apparatus, and computer program product for routing files within a document management system

摘要

A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for routing files within a document management system. The document management system may comprise or may otherwise communicate with an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system and Full Text Search (FTS) indexing system. Files may be fed to a file routing apparatus with different priorities based on an originating source. The files may be routed for OCR processing and/or FTS indexing based on file and/or document types, licensing, and/or the like. Images and corresponding machine-readable text may be archived. Text may be FTS indexed so that the associated files may be identified and accessed by various client systems.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving an indication of a received file; queuing the received file into a file classifier queue; and with a processor, processing a file from the file classifier queue by:
a) determining at least one of a file type or a document type of the file from the file classifier queue;b) based on one or both of the file type or the document type, classifying the file from the file classifier queue as an unsupported file, an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) eligible file, or a Full Text Search (FTS) eligible file;c) in an instance in which the file from the file classifier queue is an OCR eligible file, queuing the OCR eligible file into an OCR queue for OCR processing; andd) in an instance in which the file from the file classifier queue is an FTS eligible file, queuing the FTS eligible file into a FTS queue for FTS indexing.