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Open Export Settings

In the Document Definition editor, click Document Definition → Export Settings.
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Add a data export profile

Click Add, and select Export to data files in the Type field.
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Set the export scope

Specify whether export is obligatory, whether images should be exported, and which documents (with errors, without errors, or both) to export. Click Next.
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Set the export parameters

Choose a target (see Target options) and set its parameters. Click Next.
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Choose the file format

Select a file saving format, set the format-specific options (see File format options), and select the text encoding if needed. Click Next.
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Set the image options

Complete this step only if you selected Save document images.
  1. Choose to save images with the data or in a separate image folder, and select the image file naming scheme (see Rules for naming export files). Specify any fields whose images to hide during export. Click Next.
  2. Select the image format, quality, and color. To change the resolution of the source images, select Change resolution to and choose a value. If you select PDF or PDF/A, you can create searchable PDF files. Click Next.
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Finish

Enter an export profile name and click Finish. FlexiCapture exports all the document field values to one or more files of the selected format.

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Target options

The available export parameters depend on the Target value: The export path is relative to the root folder set in Project properties. Specify only the subfolder name. To use an export path different from the root, specify it in UNC format (\\computer_name\share_name[\path]), and make sure all stations involved in export can access the location. A path in the format \[path] causes export errors.

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File format options

The options depend on the file format you select.

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Microsoft Office Excel workbook (.xlsx)

  • Preserve value type on export exports data by its type; clear it to export all data with the General type (works only for Number fields).
  • Make separate files for repeatable items exports tables and repeating fields to separate files (see Repeating fields in separate files).
  • Field Mapping sets the field names and the format of number and date fields.

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Microsoft Office Excel workbook (.xls)

  • Select the Excel version (5.0/95; 97-2003; 97-2003 compatible with 5.0/95).
  • Preserve value type on export exports data by its type; clear it to export all data with the General type (works only for Number fields).
  • Make separate files for repeatable items exports tables and repeating fields to separate files (see Repeating fields in separate files).
  • For Excel 5.0/95, select a code page (see Export file formats).
  • Field Mapping sets the field names and the format of number and date fields.

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XML Document (.xml)

  • Specify the additional data to export (field locations and types, errors, recognition quality data).
  • Preserve value type on export saves the XML schema with field type descriptions.
  • Select the encoding (see Export file formats).
  • Field Mapping sets the field names.

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Comma-separated values file (.csv)

  • Select the Column separator.
  • Make separate files for repeatable items exports tables and repeating fields to separate files (see Repeating fields in separate files).
  • Select the encoding and a code page (see Export file formats).
  • Field Mapping sets the field names and the format of number and date fields.

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Text file (.txt)

  • Select the Column separator.
  • Make separate files for repeatable items exports tables and repeating fields to separate files (see Repeating fields in separate files).
  • Select the encoding and a code page (see Export file formats).
  • Field Mapping sets the field names and the format of number and date fields.

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DBase file (.dbf)

  • Preserve value type on export exports data by its type; clear it to export all fields as the Text type.
  • Make separate files for repeatable items exports tables and repeating fields to separate files (see Repeating fields in separate files).
  • Select a code page (see Export file formats).
  • Field Mapping sets the field names.

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JSON Document (.json)

  • Specify the additional data to export (field locations and types, errors, recognition quality data).
  • Preserve value type on export exports data by its type.
  • Select the encoding (see Export file formats).
  • Field Mapping sets the field names.

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Repeating fields in separate files

By default, repeating fields (fields with several instances and tables) are exported to separate files, each in a new folder named after the export file. To disable this, clear Make separate files for repeatable items on the Export Destination Wizard tab (available for all formats except XML). Repeating fields are then exported to one file, with a new line for each element instance.
When exporting image path data to a file, the path can be relative (if the images go to the same folder as the file or its subfolders) or absolute (in all other cases).