The production Workflow is a structured sequence of tasks
designed to ingest, organize, and manage incoming sessions of boxes and the
content into the WIB™ Review Web Application. WIB™ Review organizes the tasks
into Modules that can be defined for a Collection. Each new box and the
associated images will progress through the workflow until all of the images
are completed and deemed ready for Export. The following describes each Module,
the building blocks and features of each Module, and how each Module progresses
through the Workflow to completion. The Batch manager is the control center for
managing and tracking batches through the workflow.
The Batch Manager facilitates the grouping of similar tasks
or files (a "batch") to be processed together. It is designed to
handle high-volume data, reducing manual labor, improving consistency, and
enabling, in many cases, automated, unattended operations. It allows users to
define, queue, and manage batches, determining when they are released into the
production pipeline (e.g., nightly, on demand). It often includes functionality
to handle dependencies between jobs.
Key Capabilities:
- Automation: Executes tasks automatically,
such as converting files to standard formats, resizing images, or performing
bulk metadata updates
- Monitoring & Control: Provides
visibility into the status of batches, tracking progress, and identifying
failures in real-time.
- Resource Optimization: Efficiently
manages CPU resources by scheduling heavy workloads during off-peak hours.
Combines automated checks (for technical metadata and file
integrity) with manual, visual inspection of images (for subjective quality). The
QC Module can be filtered to show ONLY those images that have an AI Quality Tag
or all images in the batch (box). The user can change the navigation view to
list the image names or show the thumbnails of the images in the batch. The
Module can be configured, through Security Profiles, to allow for review of
ONLY those images with Quality Tags or require 100% review of all images in the
batch. Once all images, or at a minimum, those with errors, are reviewed and either
remedied or pass a subjective review and are accepted as passable.
Rescan, in this context, is defined as the process of
transforming products that do not fulfill preset specifications for acceptable
quality images. This module is separate from the QC module since it requires rework
on a WIB™ Unit or through the Mobile Application. The Rescan Module filters the
box image(s) that require a rescan or an insertion to deem the batch complete
and free of Capture Errors.
Digital conversion production workflow redaction is the
process of permanently removing or obscuring sensitive information (e.g., PII,
confidential, privileged data) from documents during their transformation into their
deliverable format. Unlike simple black-box covering, true electronic redaction
in a workflow removes the underlying text, images, and metadata, ensuring the
information is irretrievable. The Redaction Module allows the user to manually
redact PII, confidential, or privileged information in images that could not be
automatically redacted. The AI Redaction feature identifies images where the automated
redaction either does not completely or partially obfuscate the sensitive
information.
The Indexing Module is the manual data entry process of
human operators reading, interpreting, and typing information into attributes
for a collection. The attributes that require manual data entry can be
identified for Collections and then added to the Workflow and Taxonomy. Indexing
always precedes Verification.
Verification is the second step in the manual data entry
and data extraction process, where human operators verify the values for each
attribute in the Collection.
The
export phase is the final step in this workflow, where the edited, processed,
or digitized content is rendered and converted into a specific, distributable
file format optimized for its intended platform