Overview

Document processing features expand the concept of controlling and tracking print jobs to controlling and tracking individual documents in a print job. Additional installation tasks are required to install these features.

Two features add basic functions and objects for processing documents. Installing one of these features is a prerequisite for installing the other document processing features:

  • PDF Document Support adds functions and objects for processing documents in PDF jobs. This no-charge feature is provided with the base product but is not installed by default.

  • AFP Support adds functions and objects for processing documents in AFP jobs.

The other document processing features add functions and objects for specialized needs such as archiving document information in a repository or inserting documents into envelopes. Before installing these features, you install PDF Document Support, AFP Support, or both. If you install PDF Document Support, the other document processing features work with PDF files. If you install AFP Support, they work with AFP files. If you install both, they work with both types of files. Examples of these document processing features are:

  • Archive
  • Automated Verification

  • Electronic Presentment

  • Inserter
  • Postal Enablement
  • Preference Management

Installing a document processing feature involves:

  • Planning for the installation
  • Installing the feature
  • Defining custom document properties
  • Updating custom document properties

Installing the PDF Document Support feature also involves:

  • Installing RICOH ProcessDirector Plug-in for Adobe Acrobat for PDF document processing
  • Loading RICOH ProcessDirector document properties
  • Loading RICOH ProcessDirector media objects for PDF document processing

Important: Examples, lists of step templates, and lists of properties sometimes refer to objects in specific document processing features. If you do not have these features installed, the objects do not exist on your system.

In this section:

  1. Documents
    A document is the smallest unit that can be tracked by a workflow. For example, a document can be a set of pages that make up one bill, one statement, or one mailpiece.
  2. Document properties file
    The document properties file (DPF) can contain properties of documents in a job. The file is stored in the spool directory for the job.
  3. Document database
    The document database is an internally managed database that stores and manages the properties of individual documents in the system. You do not do actions directly on the document database, but on the documents that it contains.
Parent topic: Installing Document Processing Features