Run Capture Profile

The Run Capture Profile activity allows you to extract text from an image document using a capture profile. The capture profile contains zones that mark the regions of a document from which the capture profile extracts text. When the activity runs on a document, the activity extracts string values from the zoned regions and stores the values in output tokens.

Example: You want to use a capture profile to extract an employee’s name from a document. Then, you want to set an Employee’s Name field associated with the document using the employee’s name. To create this process, you add a Find Entry activity to find the document, then a Run Capture Profile activity to extract the employee’s name from the Find Entry’s output entry, and finally an Assign Field Values activity to change the document’s field using the Run Capture Profile activity’s output token.

Note: If any page images are missing, the activity will process all valid pages and exclude any invalid pages. A warning will appear in the log, and the returned output will only include the number of pages processed.

To set up this activity

  1. Drag the activity from the toolbox pane and drop it in the designer pane.

    Note: If not already specified, you will need to specify a Laserfiche server and repository for this activity.

  2. In the properties pane, type a name and description of the activity.
  3. In the Laserfiche Cloud Conection property box, select the connection you want the activity to use.
  4. In the Document property box, select the entry from which you want to extract text.
  5. In the Capture Profile property box:
  6. Optional: Click Manage capture profiles to view all the capture profiles that you can see on process automation.
  7. Optional: Click Open selected capture profile to view and modify the capture profile you selected in this property box.
  8. Optional: In the Output Tokens section, define the token name and tag for each output token.