Want sharepoint documents to be from a folder that is created by oculus scanning software

Question

my scenario is that I have a scanner that uses oculus software, the software scans into a folder, now want this folder to be a source of documents for sharepoint. Is it possible?

am using sharpoint 2010 enterprise

Answer 1

All document SharePoint are stored in database besides you configure BLOB cache on your server. As mantioned @mike to resolve this you need to push scenned documents to SharePoint useing API model of SharePoint.

You can do this using next code in your windows service:

        using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://testsite.dev"))
        {
            using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
            {
                using (FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(@"C:\Debug.txt"))
                {
                    byte[] buffer = new byte[fs.Length];
                    fs.Read(buffer, 0, (int) fs.Length);

                    SPList list = web.GetList("Lists/Test AAD");
                    SPFile f = list.RootFolder.Files.Add("/Shared Documents/"+Path.GetFileName(fs.Name), buffer);
                }
            }
        }

Hope it helps,

Andrew

Answer 2

We have a similar setup. For every file that gets uploaded to a folder, we developed a windows service that will target that folder and everything that gets posted to it will email to a SharePoint document library, then delete the file in the folder. It works pretty well for us assuming you have the service automatically running. The web service is just using StreamReader and SmtpClient classes