Document Conversions

[Jason Russell]

Hello all! I have a new question, do any of you deal with document conversions, and if so, how do you handle it? Our current engine has a custom C script that converts documents between various file formats. Things like encoding/decoding PDFs, changing formats from say PDF to TIFF, RTF, or some other type of file/image format. Do you call  custom scripts, use a built-in/provided script, or some other method? I didn’t see a lot in the help files so looking at the best way.

We could use the custom script but it has a lot of (now) unnecessary functionality (ftping, etc).

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[Jim Vilbrandt]

Hi Jason,

We utilize a third party product installed on a windows server that monitors a folder or folders for documents. These are then converted to the desired format and written to a secondary folder. The secondary folder is monitored by Cloverleaf.

In our case, the originating system writes an HL7 message to the secondary folder and the original document to the primary folder with the same file name. Cloverleaf has a IB-parse TPS that only processes documents when both files are present in the secondary folder.

There are several products that can be used for the document conversion, but most of the software that you can download for free are too limited.

Best Regards, Jim

• This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by Jim Vilbrandt.

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