Document management system using oracle text

i plan to create document management system using oracle text with following features
1) document comparision
2) document search
and more...
can oracle text be used to display documents of various formats by converting them to HTML. and can search keywords be highlighted in the document.
please help!

Have you ever considered doing this in Oracle Application Express (free on top of the Oracle database)? How about something like:
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31036_01/doc/appdev.22/b28839/up_dn_files.htm
Index the files using the CONTEXT index, and perhaps the docs' meta with it using the Oracle Text MULTI_COLUMN_DATASTORE, and then when you write your query for a report on the documents include a search string.
I've created a number of APEX-based document management systems and it is quite easy once you get the hang of using this environment. I suggest looking at some of the tutorials/how-to documents and you'll be on your way quickly.
Start with the upload application. Once you can get your documents in, create a report that shows everything except the document. Verify all of this works correctly.
Add some "items" to the page for the report, and include them as bind variables in the where clause.
After that, add your Oracle Text index to the database, and toss in a "text-field" item to the APEX page. Modify your report query, adding the CONTAINS clause, and use the newly created item as a bind variable. There's your keyword search.
Linking to Oracle Apps is done through API's and may be over database links.
Hope it helps. Though not a step-by-step how to document, this should point you in the right direction. Get familiar with APEX as that covers most of what you described.
-Ron

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HI All,
does the EBS offer a document management system where I can store, check in/check out, display... documents with meta data and also original files (like a pdf or word file)?
If something like this exists, what are the corresponding objects and is there also an API for it (pl/sql or even better, web service)?
Many thanks,
Konrad

It is possible to store documents/attachments in Oracle EBS database.
attachment tables
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/search.jspa?threadID=&q=attachment+tables&objID=c3&dateRange=all&userID=&numResults=15&rankBy=10001
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If you are looking for a complete Document Management System, you may consider this product.
Oracle UCM: Document Management
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/content-management/document-mgmt/index.html
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Konrad
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Using Oracle Text to search through WORD, EXCEL and PDF documents

Hello again,
What I would like to know is if I have a WORD or PDF document stored in a table. Is it possible to use Oracle Text to search through the actual WORD or PDF document?
Thanks
Doug

Yes you can do context sensitive searches on both PDF and Word docs. With the PDF you need to make sure they are text and not images. Some scanners will create PDFs that are nothing more than images of document.
Below is code sample that I made some time back to demonstrate the searching capabilities of Oracle Text. Note that the example makes use of the inso_filter that is no longer shipped with Oracle begging with Patch set 10.1.0.4. See metalink note 298017.1 for the changes. See the following link for more information on developing with Oracle Text.
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/text.101/b10729/toc.htm
begin example.
-- The following needs to be executed
-- as sys.
DROP DIRECTORY docs_dir;
CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY docs_dir
AS 'C:\sql\oracle_text\documents';
GRANT READ ON DIRECTORY docs_dir TO text;
-- End sys ran SQL
DROP TABLE db_docs CASCADE CONSTRAINTS PURGE;
CREATE TABLE db_docs (
id NUMBER,
format VARCHAR2(10),
location VARCHAR2(50),
document BLOB,
CONSTRAINT i_db_docs_p PRIMARY KEY(id)
-- Several notes need to be made about this anonymous block.
-- First the 'DOCS_DIR' parameter is a directory object name.
-- This directory object name must be in upper case.
DECLARE
f_lob BFILE;
b_lob BLOB;
document_name VARCHAR2(50);
BEGIN
document_name := 'externaltables.doc';
INSERT INTO db_docs
VALUES (1, 'binary', 'C:\sql\oracle_text\documents\externaltables.doc', empty_blob())
RETURN document INTO b_lob;
f_lob := BFILENAME('DOCS_DIR', document_name);
DBMS_LOB.FILEOPEN(f_lob, DBMS_LOB.FILE_READONLY);
DBMS_LOB.LOADFROMFILE(b_lob, f_lob, DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(f_lob));
DBMS_LOB.FILECLOSE(f_lob);
COMMIT;
END;
-- build the index
-- Note that this index differs than the file system stored file
-- in that paramter datastore is ctxsys.defautl_datastore and not
-- ctxsys.file_datastore. FILE_DATASTORE is for documents that
-- exist on the file system. DEFAULT_DATASTORE is for documents
-- that are stored in the column.
create index db_docs_ctx on db_docs(document)
indextype is ctxsys.context
parameters (
'datastore ctxsys.default_datastore
filter ctxsys.inso_filter
format column format');
--search for something that is known to not be in the document.
SELECT SCORE(1), id, location
FROM db_docs
WHERE CONTAINS(document, 'Jenkinson', 1) > 0;
--search for something that is known to be in the document.
SELECT SCORE(1), id, location
FROM db_docs
WHERE CONTAINS(document, 'Albright', 1) > 0;

Using PSE as a document management system

I used a program on my old computer with Windows Vista to file and organize scanned pdf documents. I could readily assign tags to a document, and then find the document using the tags. The tagging worked well. It was quick and intuitive.
I now have a new computer with Windows 7. I now realize that the program I used to tag documents will not run under Windows 7, and cannot be relied on to be useable in the future under Windows 15 or 20. So, I'm looking for a different system to file my electronic, scanned pdf documents that will be durable and long-lived, but not overly complicated or expensive. I'm dreading converting (probably meaning rekeying) approximately 1,500 documents filed in the old computer to a new filing system.
It occurred to me I could use Elements as a document management system. I could create a separate catalog for the filed documents, and use Elements to tag and find tagged documents. It wouldn't be as easy as the tagging system I had on my old computer, but my guess is that Adobe and Elements will be around for many years and are more likely to be functioning 5, 10 or 20 years from now. If it disappears, there is enough of a user base of Elements users that it seems likely there will be some means to convert from Elements documents to some other application using tags and captions.
Does this make sense? Has anyone else traveled this path?

Bobh123us wrote:
I used a program on my old computer with Windows Vista to file and organize scanned pdf documents. I could readily assign tags to a document, and then find the document using the tags. The tagging worked well. It was quick and intuitive.
Now can you tell us what this program was called so that we can tell you if there is an update for it to run on Windows 8.1.
PSE13 is for photos/images and it can tag them and sort them and you can do wonders with it but the learning curve is quite steep especially if you are not computer geek. If you want to try it before spending any money then I suggest download a full trial version and run it free of charge for 30 days. You can post questions here if you get stuck with it and people will try to help you with it.
The trial can be downloaded from this link:
<http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop_elements&loc=us>
Direct link is here:
<http://trials3.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PSE/13_0_esd/win64/PhotoshopElements_13_Trial_LS25_ win64.exe>
Good luck.

Not able to upload file in DMS(Document Mang. system) using Web dynpro ABAP

Hi All,
I am facing a problem while uploading the file into the DMS ( Document Management System ) from Webdnrpo .
I am using the BAPI - BAPI_DOCUMENT_CREATE2 to create the document .
CASE - 1
when i am providing the storage category mention below and no data carrier1
ls_documentfiles-storagecategory = 'ZHMEL_CS'. it is not able to upload the document in the DMS system and when i check
in the debugg mode it giving error as ""Error while checking in and storing: C:\TEST.TXT "" .
CASE - 2
When i am not using the storage category and providing the the data carrier as default
ls_documentdata-DATACARRIER1 = 'DEFAULT'. It is able to create the document in the DMS but i am not able to read that document .
I checked with DMS Consultant that DMS is configured for ZOL ( documenttype) with a storage category as 'ZHMEL_CS'.
The code which i have used is below :
ls_documentdata-documenttype = 'ZOL'.
ls_documentdata-documentversion = '00'.
ls_documentdata-documentpart = '000'.
ls_documentdata-description = 'Test Document'.
ls_documentdata-laboratory = '001'.
ls_documentdata-WSAPPLICATION1 = 'TXT'.
ls_documentdata-DOCFILE1 = 'C:\TEST.TXT'.
ls_documentdata-SAVEDOCFILE1 = 'C:\TEST.TXT'.
*ls_documentdata-FILESIZE1 = 000000000000.
*ls_documentdata-FILESIZE2 = 000000000000.
ls_documentdata-WSAPPLICATION1 = 'TXT'.
ls_documentfiles-DOCUMENTTYPE = 'ZOL'.
ls_documentfiles-DOCUMENTPART = '000'.
ls_documentfiles-DOCUMENTVERSION = '00'.
ls_documentfiles-storagecategory = 'ZHMEL_CS'.
ls_documentfiles-WSAPPLICATION = 'TXT'.
ls_documentfiles-DOCPATH = 'C:\'.""lv_filename.
ls_documentfiles-DOCFILE = 'TEST.TXT'."lv_filename.
ls_documentfiles-description = 'Test Document'.
ls_documentfiles-language = 'EN'.
ls_documentfiles-CHECKEDIN = 'X'.
APPEND ls_documentfiles to lt_documentfiles .
*&----Fill Descriptions
w_descr-language = 'EN'.
w_descr-language_iso = 'EN'.
w_descr-description = 'Test'.
append w_descr to lt_descr.
clear w_descr.
**w_hostname = 'HMEL-DV1R3_DR3_00'.
CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_DOCUMENT_CREATE2'
EXPORTING
documentdata = ls_documentdata
*hostname = 'content-srv'
*pf_http_dest = 'SAPHTTPA'
*pf_ftp_dest = 'SAPFTPA'
IMPORTING
DOCUMENTNUMBER = lv_DOCUMENTNUMBER
return = gv_return
TABLES
documentdescriptions       = lt_descr
documentfiles              = lt_documentfiles.
Please let me know your valuable inputs on the same ..
Edited by: Omm Awasthi on Dec 30, 2010 12:22 AM
Edited by: Omm Awasthi on Dec 30, 2010 12:25 AM

Hi omm , from functional side your require a document type and content repository
I have used below code in a function module to create document , we have create object link as PO to the doc.
FUNCTION ZFM_SR_CREATE_FROM_EXTERNAL .
""Local Interface:
*" IMPORTING
*"     VALUE(IV_DOCUMENTNUMBER) TYPE DOKNR OPTIONAL
*"     VALUE(IV_DOCUMENTTYPE) TYPE DOKAR OPTIONAL
*"     VALUE(IV_DOCUMENTVERSION) TYPE DOKVR OPTIONAL
*"     VALUE(IV_DOCUMENTPART) TYPE DOKTL_D OPTIONAL
*"     VALUE(IV_STORAGE_CAT) TYPE CV_STORAGE_CAT OPTIONAL
*"     VALUE(IV_DOKST) TYPE DOKST OPTIONAL
*"     VALUE(IT_DM_FILES) TYPE ZDM_TT_FILES OPTIONAL
*"     VALUE(IV_EBELN) TYPE EBELN
*" EXPORTING
*"     VALUE(EV_DOCUMENTNUMBER) TYPE DOKNR
*"     VALUE(ES_RETURN) TYPE BAPIRET2
V00.00 DD.MM.YYYY                                                   *
*********************New Method of Uploading File*********************************
CONSTANTS path_name    TYPE dms_path
           VALUE '/tmp/'.
CONSTANTS log TYPE dms_path VALUE '/tmp/logFO.txt'.
DATA: ls_draw TYPE bapi_doc_draw2,
        lt_documentfiles TYPE TABLE OF bapi_doc_files2,
        ls_documentfiles TYPE bapi_doc_files2,
        ls_dm_files TYPE zdm_files,
        lv_filename TYPE string,
        lv_ext TYPE string,
        lv_file_type TYPE draw-dappl,
        lv_file_name TYPE dms_path,
        lv_msg(80) TYPE c,
        lt_objectlinks TYPE TABLE OF bapi_doc_drad,
        ls_objectlinks TYPE bapi_doc_drad,
        lv_ebelp   TYPE ebelp
Prepare Data
MOVE iv_documentnumber TO ls_draw-documentnumber.
MOVE iv_documenttype TO ls_draw-documenttype.
MOVE iv_documentversion TO ls_draw-documentversion.
MOVE iv_documentpart TO ls_draw-documentpart.
ls_draw-statusextern = iv_dokst.
ls_draw-statusintern = iv_dokst.
ls_draw-username = sy-uname.
LOOP AT it_dm_files INTO ls_dm_files.
    SPLIT ls_dm_files-filepath AT '.' INTO lv_filename lv_ext.
    CALL FUNCTION 'CV120_DOC_GET_APPL'
      EXPORTING
        pf_file   = ls_dm_files-filepath
      IMPORTING
        pfx_dappl = lv_file_type.
    TRANSLATE lv_file_type TO UPPER CASE.
    OPEN DATASET log FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT.
    TRANSFER lv_ext TO log.
    ls_documentfiles-wsapplication = lv_file_type.
    TRANSLATE ls_documentfiles-wsapplication TO UPPER CASE.
    CONCATENATE path_name
                       lv_filename
                        lv_ext
                        INTO lv_file_name.
    CONDENSE lv_file_name NO-GAPS.
    TRANSFER lv_file_name TO log.
    OPEN DATASET lv_file_name FOR OUTPUT IN BINARY MODE MESSAGE lv_msg.
*Transfer Attachment Content to Application Server
    TRANSFER ls_dm_files-content TO lv_file_name.
    CLOSE DATASET lv_file_name.
    TRANSFER 'move data to lt_files' TO log.
    ls_documentfiles-storagecategory = iv_storage_cat.
    ls_documentfiles-docfile = lv_file_name.
    ls_documentfiles-DOCUMENTVERSION = IV_DOCUMENTVERSION.
    APPEND ls_documentfiles TO lt_documentfiles.
    CLEAR lv_file_name.
    CLOSE DATASET log.
ENDLOOP.
IF iv_ebeln IS NOT INITIAL.
    ls_objectlinks-objecttype = 'EKPO'.
    SELECT SINGLE ebelp INTO lv_ebelp FROM ekpo WHERE
                                      ebeln = iv_ebeln
                                      AND loekz eq space.
    CONCATENATE iv_ebeln lv_ebelp INTO ls_objectlinks-objectkey.
    APPEND ls_objectlinks TO lt_objectlinks.
ENDIF.
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   EXPORTING
     documentdata   = ls_draw
     pf_ftp_dest    = 'SAPFTPA'
     pf_http_dest   = 'SAPHTTPA'
   IMPORTING
     documentnumber = ev_documentnumber
     return         = es_return
   TABLES
     objectlinks          = lt_objectlinks
     documentfiles = lt_documentfiles.
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   ls_doc_datax type bapi_doc_drawx2,
   ls_return type bapiret2.
Set value for document data
ls_doc_data-statusextern = 'IW'.
ls_doc_data-statusintern = 'IW'.
Set value for document data check
ls_doc_datax-statusextern = 'X'.
ls_doc_datax-statusintern = 'X'.
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EXPORTING
    DOCUMENTTYPE               = 'ROS'
    DOCUMENTNUMBER             = IV_DOCUMENTNUMBER
    DOCUMENTPART               = IV_DOCUMENTPART
    DOCUMENTVERSION            = IV_DOCUMENTVERSION
    DOCUMENTDATA               = ls_doc_data
    DOCUMENTDATAX              = ls_doc_datax
HOSTNAME                   =
DOCBOMCHANGENUMBER         =
DOCBOMVALIDFROM            =
DOCBOMREVISIONLEVEL        =
SENDCOMPLETEBOM            = ' '
      pf_ftp_dest    = 'SAPFTPA'
      pf_http_dest   = 'SAPHTTPA'
CAD_MODE                   = ' '
ACCEPT_EMPTY_BOM           = ' '
IMPORTING
   RETURN                     = ls_return
TABLES
CHARACTERISTICVALUES       =
CLASSALLOCATIONS           =
DOCUMENTDESCRIPTIONS       =
OBJECTLINKS                =
DOCUMENTSTRUCTURE          =
   DOCUMENTFILES              = lt_documentfiles.
LONGTEXTS                  =
COMPONENTS                 =
move es_return to ES_RETURN.
IF es_return-type CA 'EA' ."NE 'E' AND es_return-type NE 'A'.
    "do nothing
ELSE.
    CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT'
      EXPORTING
        wait = 'X'.
ENDIF.
LOOP AT lt_documentfiles INTO ls_documentfiles.
    DELETE DATASET ls_documentfiles-docfile.
ENDLOOP.
ENDFUNCTION.

Document Management System workflow

Dear Sirs,
In document management system while doing document distribution system is creating partial order,inial order but no
distribution order.Further to that it saying
"Not yet sent to recipient
Message no. 25235
Diagnosis
No distribution has been made to the recipient.
Procedure
You cannot execute this function until the partial order has been
allocated to a distribution order package."
Pl. help me to find out the problem
Thanks and regards
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EDIT:
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Hi,
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1. Document/Image Capture
2. Document Storage & Retrieval
3. Processflow/Workflow
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such solution that can easily be integrated with IFS, so that
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right.
Hope this helps, if not give me a shout,
Regards,
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Problem with blob column index created using Oracle Text.

Hi,
I'm running Oracle Database 10g 10.2.0.1.0 standard edition one, on windows server 2003 R2 x64.
I have a table with a blob column which contains pdf document.
Then, I create an index using the following script so that I can do fulltext search using Oracle Text.
CREATE INDEX DMCS.T_DMCS_FILE_DF_FILE_IDX ON DMCS.T_DMCS_FILE
(DF_FILE)
INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT
PARAMETERS('DATASTORE CTXSYS.DEFAULT_DATASTORE');
However, the index is not searchable and I check the following tables created by database for my index and found them to be empty as well !!
DR$T_DMCS_FILE_DF_FILE_IDX$I
DR$T_DMCS_FILE_DF_FILE_IDX$K
DR$T_DMCS_FILE_DF_FILE_IDX$N
DR$T_DMCS_FILE_DF_FILE_IDX$R
I wonder what's wrong with it.
My user has been granted the ctx_app role and I have other tables that store plain text which I use Oracle Text are fine. I even output the blob column and save as pdf file and they are fine.
However the database seems like not indexing my blob column although the index can be created without error.
Please advise.
Really appreciate anyone who can help.
Thank you.

The situation is I have already loaded a few pdf document into the table's blob column.
After I create the Oracle text index on this blob column, I find the system generated index tables listed in my earlier posting are empty, except for the 4th table.
Normally we'll see words inside the table where those are the words indexed by oracle text on my document.
As a result, no matter how i search for the index using select statement with contains operator, it will not give me any result.
I feel weird why the blob is not indexed. The content of the blob are actually valid because I tested this by export the content back to pdf and I can still view and search within the pdf.
Regards,
Jap.

Parsing the word file using oracle text having tables within it............

Hi,
I was going through this document.Actually I am going to implement something like full text search functionality in our system.
We get the info as .doc file.
Earlier what we used to do is, we used to parse the file and store it into the database and then searched using PL/SQL.
But what I understand from this article that this can be done using oracle text also.
One concern is that whether the oracle text is able to parse the .doc file having tables embedded within it.
Please let me know about this.(Whether oracle text will be able to parse the files having tables embedded within it).
I am attaching an example file for this.
Please let me know about this as early as possible.

Yes Oracle Text have this capability. Use AUTO_FILTER or USER_FILTER to create index

Security when using oracle text

Hello,
We would like to use Oracle text functionality on Oracle 10 but the System Admin told us that Oracle is accessing the filesystem with the user account who launched the oracle instance.
He told us that this is a security problem : giving oracle password gives access to the file system.
Is that true and is there a solution to make oracle connect to the filesystem with another linux user account ?
Thanks a lot !

raford wrote:
This only applies when you use the FILE_DATASTORE to index documents on disk, rather than in the file system.
You can restrict access to this feature by only allowing users having a specific role to use it - see
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/text.111/b28304/cdatadic.htm#BHCBIFEA
(NB. this is in the 11g documentation - I can't find it in the 10g manual but the functionality is the same).
It's the database process itself which accesses the files, so it will always access them as the owner of the database process, there's no way to change that.What do you mean when you said " FILE_DATASTORE to index documents on disk, rather than in the file system" ?

Apex Document Management System

Hi All,
Is there a sample demo packaged apps made in Apex for a document management system? Just like the demo ARIA or Bug tracking systems.
Or is it possible to develop it in Apex? We have lots of Ms words documents, scanned Land Titles, and other important certificates in our office that need
to be managed and organized. I am thinking of loading them to Apex. We have also lots of project documentations and program codes for version control.
Can Apex handles also SVN subversioning system?
Thanks a lot,

KinsaKaUy? wrote:
Hi All,
Is there a sample demo packaged apps made in Apex for a document management system? Just like the demo ARIA or Bug tracking systems.
There was, but it has been removed as it "no longer followed recommended coding practices and security". However it appears that these recommendations on coding practices and security do not apply in China as the packaged applications are still available from Oracle's Chinese site.
@Oracle: When are sample packaged applications returning. These apps are out there and (if Arie's comments are correct regarding what are now perceived to be outdated about them) they still constitute a largely useful resource. Why not make them officially available again through the relevant previous version archives?

Requirements for a document management system

We are planning to implement a document management system Oracle Application Server. Here are the high-level requirements:
· High availability (24x7)
· 3000 users, worldwide, on WAN
· 600 GB of documents
· Workflow
· Alerts e-mailed on document adds/updated, for workflow
· Search of document titles, properties, keywords, content
· Daily backup of new/updated documents
In regards to Oracle Application Server (Portal), can someone provide me the following information:
1. What Oracle AS server architecture would we need to handle the above requirements?
2. What is the Oracle recommended method of scaling up our current Oracle Portal instance in regard to:
a. Capacity
b. Achieving 24x7 availability
3. When documents are stored via an Item upload in Oracle Portal, are they stored in the database or as the actual file?
Thanks a lot,
Lpatnaik

Lot of this features are already implemented in Oracle Portal, Collaboration Suit and Oracle Content Management SDK.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/collab.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/cm_sdk_9042.html
Generally this products stores documents in database BLOB field.
I personally don't like this approach.
We developed a media library that stores the files in filessystem, but the metadata is in database. The database references to the file in filesystem with a BFile field
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/sql_elements001.htm#i54873
The system is very fast so I think it was a good decision to store the media this way.
If you use this approach you have to create database and filessystem backup also.
Filessystem backup is much faster and there are several very good tools to make an incremental backup.
If you store media in a database you can use Oracle Media types:
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/sql_elements001.htm#i121058
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