Introduction

KGS ScanServer is a Java-based software application that can be used to centrally administer KGS ScanClient profiles, KGS ScanClient licenses as well as setting up queues, that allows you to save scanned documents to destination folders.

Due to its platform-independent design, KGS ScanServer can be used on a wide variety of different operating systems (e.g.: Windows Server, Linux/UNIX servers, etc).

Normally a scan station holds its own scan profiles and licenses and recovering after a system crash often appears to be a very time-consuming task.

KGS ScanServer meets the needs of centrally administering a large number of scan stations.

You may assign locally configured scan profiles to a group of clients in order to minimize the time needed for configuration as well as centrally managing the licenses required for operating the individual clients.

KGS ScanServer also allows you to collect uploads to SAP from multiple scan stations and forward them to a KGS DocumentRouter instance, which will link those scanned documents to SAP.

While performing this task, KGS ScanServer computes checksums to ensure document integrity.

System requirements

KGS ScanServer requires a servlet container platform like Apache Tomcat as well as a Java runtime environment. For details regarding the prerequisites of KGS ScanServer please visit Prerequisites for KGS Software Components

Installation

KGS ScanServer is being shipped as a web archive container (WAR file). The specific installation procedure depends on the web server being used and might differ from the procedures described below.

Installation via Tomcat-Web-UI

In order to install KGS ScanServer via Tomcat itself, please open Tomcat’s Web Application Manager. Click on the button Choose File in order to open a file picker. Choose the downloaded KGS ScanServer-WAR-file and press the Ok-button.

After choosing the file, please click on the Deploy-button in order to start the deployment process.

Opened “Web Application Manager” from Tomcat-web server with highlighted buttons.

Installation via Tomcat-Auto-Deploy

In case you did not deactivate it, you may also use Tomcat’s automatic deployment method to deploy KGS ScanServer.

In order to do so, please copy the downloaded WAR-file to <Your Tomcat installation directory>/webapps.

Tomcat will then automatically unpack and deploy the WAR file.

Licensing

In order to use KGS ScanServer you’ll have to request a license.

Please follow the guide for requesting a license KGS Software licensing

Configuration

Profile Group Management

User Management

Scan Queues

Batch Transfers

Licenses