
1 Introduction
1.1 HP Embedded Capture (HP EC)
HP Embedded Capture (HP EC) is a Document Capture solution designed to ease hardcopy digitization from
HP High End Multifunction and Scanjet devices. As a serverless solution (running inside the device), HP EC
“captures” documents, adds indexing, and sends files to predefined locations, enhanced digital sending
capabilities beyond what comes in the box. This solution is particularly convenient for decentralized/branch
office environments having little to no IT resources in place.
HP EC streamlines customer business processes, allowing them to tailor entire capture processes to meet
customer specific business needs. Since the solution is extremely flexible, Personal or Public scan workflows
can be defined and deployed to devices, generated on demand via our TWAIN driver, or initiated directly from
a Line of Business application through an Application Program Interface (API).
HP EC can collect many types of information during a scan process (such as device, user credentials, and scan
results), including information provided by end-users through the control panel that can be validated against
regular expressions, triggering decisions based on their values.
1.2 Definitions and main concepts
API
Application Program Interface. A set of libraries and/or Windows components that allow customer
applications to integrate business workflows with the device through the HP EC embedded component.
Authentication filtering
A practical implementation of the conditions filtering on the graph. The administrator can create conditional
workflows for navigation to use macros based on the logged in user parameters (such as user name and
domain).
Conditions (node)
A formula used to filter nodes and create conditional navigation. A condition will be assigned to a graph
relation between two nodes, and evaluated as a Boolean value. Once a formula evaluation returns true, the
workflow will consider that node as a candidate to continue.
Control panel
A front panel user interface with a touch screen and physical keyboard. The embedded applications will
display on the control panel and interact with the user through screen and keyboard events.
Dynamic workflows
User/administrator defined workflow that is used just once. Upon completion, the workflow is removed from
the device. A dynamic workflow is defined at Scan level.
Since HP EC supports cyclic workflows, a dynamic workflow allows the user to navigate just once through a
scan node. Once a scan cycle completes, that cycle is removed from the system.
Embedded software
Software that is installed into the device, acting as part of the firmware, and running as a standalone feature
from external systems. In certain use cases, some external interactions (for administration purposes,
business application integration use cases, etc..) can be enabled.
Section 1.1 HP Embedded Capture (HP EC) 1
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