2023.1:Separation Provider (Property)

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Separation Providers are methods by which Grooper can separate pages into Document Folders.

Each provider has its own configurable properties. Changing these properties will change the criteria to separate pages into documents.

Glossary

The following is a list of terms you will see in this article along with their definitions.

• Batch: An object in Grooper that contains the documents brought into Grooper via scanning or import.
• Batch Folder: Any folder contained within the Batch. This includes the Batch level itself.
• Batch Process: A Grooper object that consists of several Batch Process Steps that are designed to apply activities to a Batch.
• Batch Process Step: A Grooper object that runs a specified "Activity" as part of a Batch Process.
• Document Folder: Any Batch Folder that contains a complete document. Usually created after a Separate step in a Batch Process.
• Lexical training: This involves training Grooper to recognize the language of a document using a TF-IDF algorithm.

About

Separation Providers establish the logic used to create "separation points" between loose pages. Each Separation Provider has its own criteria for determining where these separation points occur within a Batch. However, the basic operation is same for all of them.

1. Determine what page is the first page of a document.
   • This is the "separation point".
   • Generally, the first page in a Batch is always the first separation point.
2. Insert a Batch Folder into the Batch.
3. Move pages into that folder until another first page of a document is encountered.
4. Insert a new Batch Folder into the Batch
   • This is the next "separation point".
5. Move pages into that folder until another first page of a document is encountered.
6. Repeat until the end of the Batch.

How To

You may download the ZIP below and upload it into your own Grooper environment (version 2023.1). This containes one or more Projects with resources used in examples throughout this article. Media:2023.1 Wiki Separation-Provider Project.zip

The Separation Provider is selected and configured using the Provider property of the Separate Activity or a Separation Profile.

Setting up the Separate Step

For more information on how to set up your Sepation Provider reference the #List of Providers section in this article and click on the Provider you would like to configure to navigate to an article with a tutorial on configuration.