2023.1:Separation Provider

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Separation Providers divide a sequence of contract Batch Pages into logical documents. They define the rules and criteria for grouping pages and determining document boundaries. Separation is a foundational step in document workflows, transforming a continuous stream of scanned or imported pages into discrete, classified documents ready for extraction, validation, and export.

• The insert_page_break Separate activity's Provider setting specifies which Separation Provider is applied to the selected inventory_2 Batch Scope.
• One folder Batch Folder is created for each span of pages identified as a document by the Separation Provider.

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

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

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

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.