This will allow you to experiment with importing the PDFs. When you first open the demo file, if you have FileMaker 17 or higher, with the ability to create folders, it will create the Scanner Documents folder with some sample PDF files in it. This is not a new technique, it has been mentioned in forums, and at FileMaker DevCons in the past. NOTICE – when the demo file runs, if you are using FileMaker Pro 17 or higher, it will offer to export a folder and files to your desktop.
This is a powerful technique, so please use it with caution. This is a fairly simple technique using only standard FileMaker Pro capabilities, without the use of plugins or AppleScript to delete files from anywhere on your computer.
Once the files are imported into FileMaker, the files are removed from the user’s ‘Scanner Document’ folder on the Desktop of their computer. I have talked about some of the issues with scanners and FileMaker in a previous blog post, - there is no really great way to have the scanner files go straight to FileMaker Pro, so my idea was to keep things relatively simple and have the user scan to a set folder on their computer and then run a FileMaker script to import from a that folder location. Why would you want to delete files in the Finder from FileMaker Pro? I had a request to build a simple document management system using a Fujitsu scanner to bring PDF files into FileMaker.
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