PLEASE NOTE: If you are using an older version of PDFDataNet you may not have the Universal Service Monitor installed. In this instance, please take a look at the DI Monitor (Service) instructions.

Universal Service Monitor Documentation

Want to run the Document Indexing program as a Service? Having configured your templates and tested the extraction of the data, you have the option to run the Document Indexing program as a windows service. The Universal Service Monitor program will monitor a folder on your computer, where you can drag in new PDFs to be processed.

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Universal Service Monitor Instructions

Instructions on how to use the Universal Service Monitor program for automatically processing your PDF’s.

1. Install The Service

This program will come included with our latest installation of the PDFDataNet program.
When you first open the Universal Supervisor Monitor program you will see it says Service Uninstalled.
To begin, click the Install button.

You will then see it change to Service Stopped.

2. Start / Stop The Service

Under Mode you can select either of the three options (by default it’s Automatic).
- Automatic: The service will start at system logon.
- Manual: The service starts only when explicitly started.
- Disabled: The service is disabled and will not run.

Under the Application drop-down you can choose between the PDFDataNet and ScanToPDF (if you have a license for this program) service options.
You can click the Start button to begin running the service for the chosen application.

It will then say Service Running.
Your machine’s PDFDataNetService details will also show, such as the watch folder that is being monitored (you may need to click the Refresh button to see this).
To prevent the service from running at any point simply press the Stop button.

3. Service Concurrency

There are three options for the number of files being processed at once:
- Default concurrency
- Max concurrency = 1
- Max concurrency = 5

4. Log File Type

There are two service log’s for you to view (which you can switch between):
- Service display log – this displays the basic information regarding the files that are being processed and how our service is handling them.
- Service debug log – this displays a more in-detail log.