File Naming in conjunction with scanning software

[snapper1969]

I don't know if this is possible.

I have to scan 300 A4 sheets using Omnipage software and save each one with a different filename. The filenames that I need to use are in a separate textfile.

Thx,

John

[Marcus Tettmar]

Yes, that's possible. Just loop through the file with the ReadLn function - see the help file. In each loop iteration perform the scan and output using the line read by ReadLn as the filename.

[snapper1969]

Thanks Marcus, it works a treat. The software appends and underscore and 4 digits to the end of the filenames for indexing, is there a way to rename all the files to take away the appended stuff?. Is it a getfiles and another loop?.

Thx,

John

[Marcus Tettmar]

Hi,

You can use string manipulation commands. E.g. the following code is one way to find the position of the underscore and remove it plus the following 4 characters:

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Let>filename=somefile_1234.dat
Pos>_,filename,1,p
Let>en1=p-1
MidStr>filename,1,en1,part1
Let>st2=p+5
Length>filename,lenf
MidStr>filename,st2,lenf,part2
Let>filename=%part1%%part2%
MessageModal>filename

Not sure if that's exactly what you want but hopefully you get the idea. A more elegant approach would be regular expressions using VBScript, but that's not for everyone.