#111 Usage of external tools to fill Metadata

[H,H]

Dear Jeffrey,
(as you might remember) we are working a lot with your billiant software, for example to batch scan receipts. In my country and some others within the EU receipts are required to contain a certain data with a QR code. It would be nice to be able to use some external tools to analyse scanned documents and to pipe some metadata back to scan2pdf, for example the date of issue, Title or author of a receipt.
Is there eventually any chance to implement this in future?

Keep up the good work
Kind regards
Harald

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe]

I like the idea. The question is the best way to implement it.

How about if an external tool created a JSON file called metadata.json?

metadata.json woud be formatted like:

{
  "author": "John Smith",
  "title": "My latest document",
  "subject": "Lots of things",
  "keywords": "truth lies",
  "date": "2019-12-31 01:02:03+0000",
}

And the metadata fields would be updated appropriately.

Obviously not all the fields need to be present.

Any better ideas for the API?

[H,H]

Hi Jeffrey,
your proposal seems to be a great way to keep the data exchange simple and effective. Great that you like my idea.