DOCUMENT WORKFLOW ARCHITECTURE

摘要

A method (200) and a computer readable medium for implementing a document workflow (16) are provided. The method includes receiving a document file (18) from a device (12) via a device application program interface (API) (24). The device (12) can be connected to a network (14). The document file (18) can include information content (20). The method also includes image-processing the document file (18) via a document-processing API (26) to extract the information content (20) from the document file (18). The method further includes invoking document services (28) via the document-processing API (26) to provide the extracted information content (20) to a service application (22) on the network (14).