Automated Magazine Archive Import

Hi,
I work for a student-run university magazine. We're looking to digitize around 250 of our previous issues into PDF format. We have the proper hardware -- specifically, a networked copy machine with a sheet feeder -- but are not sure of how to use our software. We have a license for Acrobat Pro 9.
I know how to have the issues scanned in, auto-oriented, and OCR scanned. The question is in having Acrobat automatically split our 11x17 spreads into individual 8.5x11 pages and to properly order each issue's pages.
Is there any way to make this happen in Acrobat? If not, is there any other software available to do this?
Thanks in advance.

The archive feature in Server Admin can also be run from the command line.
Look at the man page for slapconfig for details. As a simple solution, you can run `slapconfig -backupdb <path-to-archive-dir>/<date>` in a cron job.

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I have a video archive, imported from a Sony DSR 500 camera, with 2 sound tracks. When I watch it on the "importation from a camera" panel, it is ok I can hear both of the sound tracks, one and two.
I imported it in Final Cut Pro X, and I simply lost the sound track 2. I can't hear it, and the 2nd green sound track is empty.
What can I do, or what did I do wrong before the import ?
Thank you.
Fred

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Our Archiver Exports are quite fast but Imports are pathetically slow. We suspect that the Indexing is the culprit.
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Hi Prateek,
I'm a bit confused with this statement "We have OracleTextSearch search engine configured for Metadata only indexing." OracleTextSearch is a full text indexer. How would you configure OTS itself as "metadata only" indexing? I would think that instead of using OTS, it would be more efficient to set the SearchIndexerEngine to "DATABASE.METADATA". Maybe this is the case already, but I'm just puzzled by the statement.
Indexing just metadata, though, should not be that performance intensive. There are a couple of things that jump out.
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I point out the file system since the observation was made that the system is relatively underutilized. I've seen many high-end processor/memory configurations get sabotaged with slow disk/SAN/NAS access.
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Combining Text in Automator for Excel import.

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Well, it is good to know that it can be done in Applescript, though I have not found a way to accomplish this. All examples I have seen (Googling and AppleScript 1-2-3 book) use set statements using static strings, and then concatenating those statements together. Since my values are dynamic, those examples don't help.
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Hi,
I'm new to Final Cut Server (FC Server) and learning it now.
Have a few questions, searched the internet for answers but still hope for assistance here.
- Within "Search Expired" response, what is the purpose of "Event Type"?
- Within "Subscription" trigger, what is the purpose of "Event Type Filter"?
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Here is the link for the release notes that explain about Event type filter in subscriptions. Basically it tell the subscription the event (on the asset) that will trigger the response (when you "create" an asset, when an asset is "modified", etc)
http://www.apple.com/support/releasenotes/en/FinalCut_Server_1.0rn/
I think you are doing it backwards with the search expired. The first mistake you are making is that you can only trigger search expired responses with Schedules (you can check this in the setup guide page 199)
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First make a schedule (that runs whenever you need it to run) that trigger the 1st search expired response (Event type custom1) Here you can add some filters so you'll only affect some assets if you want to
Second create a Subscription with event type filter = custom 1 that will trigger the Copy response
For the Archive response is all the same but remember to use custom2 event
I haven't test this myself but it should work.
Let me know if it does.
Best regards

AVCHD archive importing questions

Hello. I have a Canon HF10. I am new to video editing and am just now digging in to learn iMovie, so up until tonight, I've been recording on the camera, and when I need space on the camera, simply moving the entire folder structure on the camera's internal hard drive to a firewire external drive. Now I have iMovie 09 and I'm ready to start using that footage.
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maverickoconnell wrote:
Hi Guys
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Cheers
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Thanks

Hello
What messages or alerts you get exactly? Can you post a screenshot? This would be really useful
In my opinion you could also try reinstalling Bulletin Board. Probably its malfunctioning or something else You can download the newest version of this tool on Toshiba website:
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Automating Album Art Import

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ick, ebay and amazon have huge jpg images.
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Doing it one at a time using the itunes store is painfully slow. What I would love is some program that will go through my library and examine the song name and artist name, access CDDB and give me a list of possible albums that the song is from. I would click one, and the program would fill that info in to the tag and I'd go to the next one.
8000 songs - a program that could do exactly the above would probably turn this from a 6 month job (done in small bits, 5-10 songs per day) to a weekend job, maybe 3 hours total. That would be AWESOME.
****, I could even program it, if my last programming class wasn't turbo pascal, 12 years ago!
Any ideas? Is this possible? Did I post this in the right forum?

Cmon, don't you think I tried Google?
I hate to sound ungrateful for the "suggestion" but someone who posts on a forum is not looking for "check out google" I did, and there's nothing there, so if you have a specific suggestion, I'd love to hear it.
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My hourly wage is $75. You do the math.
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hi all,
trying to mess around with automator for the first time and cant seem to get it to do what i need.
i have hundreds of files that i want to zip individually, not into one big "archive.zip", which i can get it to do. as an example...
---current folder
file1.bin
file2.bin
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---after trying automator folder
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any help is much appreciated,
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03. Delete all the contents of the resultant 'Run AppleScript' panel.
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-- Code starts here --
on run {input, parameters}
repeat with i in input
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