Conversion Job Options
This topic will help you set up a conversion job. You’ll add and edit your conversion jobs from the Jobs tab > New or Edit.
Job Name
First, give your conversion job a unique name.
Manual Job or Scheduled?
A manual job will run whenever you fire it manually. A scheduled job, like the name implies, runs on a schedule (specify under the Schedule tab).
Use Batch Files
With this option, you will feed QuikFile a list of files you want converted. The list must meet these criteria:
- Plain text file with a ".txt" extension
- One filename per line
- Give the complete path for each file
- The files can reside anwhere
To feed the text files to QuikFile, designate a Batch File Folder and save the files there.
Every time the job runs, QuikFile will look in the Batch File Folder for a new text file, read the list from it, and add every file in it to the queue. This is a good option if your files are managed by a database or another system. It’s also a good option if you have thousands and thousands of files to convert – instead of having QuikFile recurse through your folders looking for files, which is slow and resource-intensive, you simply tell QuikFile what files you want converted.
Location of Input Files
QuikFile will search through this folder for files to convert. It will look for the file types you specify, and can optionally look in subfolders too.
Input File Types
Select the kinds of files you want to convert.
NOTE: Some of these file types can’t be converted when you’re running QuikFile as a service. See Run as a Service for more information.
Other Options
The following job options are available:
- Also Include Subfolders
- Also look in subfolders when searching the Location of Input Files for files to convert.
- Delete Input Files after Conversion
- If you’re putting your converted files in a new location, you can delete the original from the input folder after conversion.
- Redo PDFs That Are Already Searchable
- Normally QuikFile will skip PDFs that are already searchable. This option will redo OCR on PDFs that are already searchable.
- Use Same Subfolder Structure for Output Files
- If you’re putting your converted files in a new location, this will replicate the original folder structure of the input folder. Only relevant if Also Include Subfolders is selected.
- Keep Converted Files in Their Original Folders
- Convert files in-place instead of putting the converted files in a separate folder.
- WARNING: This will overwrite the originals!
Output Locations
If you want to save your converted files to a new location, enter the location here. Note that you can save to more than one location.