[Zope-CMF] Using CMF/Plone for Document Management?

[Kelley, Sean]

I am in process of selecting scanners and OCR software and will be saving
the documents to the file system.  The question is how to easily get
everything into cmf/plone.  That's why I mentioned the use of TextIndexNG
and CMFExternalFile.  I am thinking if I can use something like
CMFExternalFile, I can manage volumes of files and add them but I need to be
able to search them as well as auto set meta data on import such as
department etc.

Message: 3
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:22:14 -0800
From: "Meilicke, Scott" <scott.meilicke at intp.com>
Subject: RE: [Zope-CMF] Using CMF/Plone for Document Management?
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>From what I have (just) read, pdftotext does not do OCR.  PDFs created from
scanners therefore will not have anything to index, unless you put an OCR
program in the mix.

Scott

I want to setup PDF scanners and use CMF/Plone for document management.  My
thinking is that I already have PDF docs searchable with textIndexNG for
people who manually add documents, but how do I automate the process of
adding several documents at once?  I have tested CMFExternalFile (which is
not allowing full test searches on PDF docs for some reason).  What if I
want to allow users to upload batches of documents which pre set fields like
"department" and other custom searchable pre set fields?  Is CMFExternalFile
the answer?  Is there a better way?  Does CMFExternalFile just need to be
customized?

I am currently running...
CMFExternalFile 0.5
zope 2.6.1
pdftotext (latest windows version)
TextIndexNG2 (2.0.1)
Plone 1.0.3

Sean