1 Introduction
1-4 AS-Series Operator Manual August 2010
Jobs
A job is a collection of parameters AS-Series scanners use for scanning documents.
The jobs you set up allow you to process documents in a similar manner from run to
run.
The scanner captures images of documents and stores the information it collects in
batches, which consist of one or more transactions. The definition of a transaction
can vary from customer to customer, and even from job to job. A transaction may
consist of several page types. For example, a check, a stub (or remittance piece), and
an envelope.
Structured vs. Unstructured jobs
Structured jobs require you to scan documents in a particular order. For example,
when running a structured job, the machine may prompt you to scan a batch ticket
first, then a stub, then a check, and/or another document, and finally an envelope to
signify the end of the transaction. If a page type is scanned out of sequence or if the
system is expecting a certain page type, the system will alert you.
In an unstructured job, you can scan any of the expected page types in any
sequence. The only restriction is that the transaction boundary, in most cases an
envelope, is scanned last in the transaction. The transaction boundary tells the
system the current transaction is complete and the next transaction will begin.
Page types
The term “page type” is used to specify a collection of criteria that a piece must meet
to be classified as a certain type of document; i.e., length, height, barcode, mark
detect, MICR, etc. The system uses the page type parameters set up by your System
Administrator to classify documents that come into the system. When the scanner
processes documents in a job, it gathers data (such as length and width) on each
item and compares the item to the page types you have designated for that job. This
is how the system identifies each document scanned into the system. The system
then collects the appropriate data from the document and sorts it according to the
current job parameters.
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