Why this Alfresco extension? It's goal is to give a non developer the ability to fill metadata fields with data extracted from preselected areas on documents. He can indicate for a specific document type where to find metadata and to which field it is linked. For example: your invoices have the same information (let's say total amount)
- always in a certain area
- correspond to a specific regex
then this extension can extract the amount and feed it to the invoiceAmount field.
So how does it work:
- After being installed, login to Alfresco and go to the "Metadata Extraction Information" site
- Choose the "Data lists" menu, then "Extractor Mapping Datalist" and click on " New Item"
- In the modal view select first the type of document you want to extract the data
- Then select the property of the document type to whom the data will be extracted.
- Choose which way the metadata will be extracted.
- Indicate coordinates or the regex to indicate where to find the metadata.
If you want to use it directly, you can download the release.
Otherwise clone this repo, do your modifications and
run with mvn clean install -DskipTests=true alfresco:run or ./run.sh and verify that it works.
- Works for the moment only on text pdfs
- Since it's developed with SDK 3.0 it should be compatible from 4.2 to 5.2
- I think a video explaining the usage would be interesting
- Check out the project page and add a point if needed: https://github.com/sgirardin/easyContent2Metadata/projects/1