Ascent Collection Server

Ascent Collection Server 1.2 Supported Configurations

Kofax Capture 8.0 Import Connector - Web Services is the latest release of the Kofax Capture Import Connector - Web Services (previously named Ascent Collection Server) product.

Ascent Collection Web Server Requirements

This section provides information about the operating system and hardware requirements for the Ascent Collection Web Server.

Operating System

Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server with Service Pack 4
Windows Server 2003 (Standard or Enterprise edition)
Note: It is not recommended that you attach a scanner to the Web server because of potential conflicts between the Scan module and the Ascent Collection Service when importing images into Ascent Capture. If scanning is needed, configure an Ascent Capture scan station on a separate Ascent Capture client computer on the LAN.

Required Components

You must have all of the following components installed on the Web server:

Microsoft Internet Information Services
For a combined installation only: Ascent Capture 7.0 installed as a standalone or client/server
.NET Framework 1.1 (which is installed with Ascent Capture 7.0)
NTFS partition and 500 Mbytes of free disk space on the local installation drive (for example, drive C:)

Refer to your Microsoft documentation for details on setting up the NTFS file system. In addition, you may want to go to www.microsoft.com and look at the Microsoft Knowledge Base article titled “How to Use Convert.exe to Convert a Partition to the NTFS File System.” (Search for 214579, or, if that article has been archived, you can search for “convert FAT to NTFS.”

The Web server cannot:

Be an Ascent Capture Scan station
Be a domain controller

Hardware

Hardware Requirements: Minimum

The minimum hardware requirements are:

Processor: Pentium III 800 MHz processor
System memory: 512 Mbytes of memory
Disk space: 10 GB of disk space for installation and storage of submitted batches during processing
Bandwidth: Fractional T1 line (or better) for Internet connection

Hardware Requirements: Recommended

The recommended hardware requirements are at least:

Processor: Pentium 4 (or higher) 1.8 GHz processor
System memory: 1 GB of memory
Disk space: 20 GB of disk space for installation and storage of submitted batches during processing
Bandwidth: T1 telephone line for Internet connection or comparable bandwidth

These requirements are available for download in PDF format in the System Requirements Overview (PDF, 44 KB) and Admin System Requirements (PDF 224 KB) files.

Ascent Collection Service Requirements

This section provides information about the operating system and hardware requirements for the computer where the Ascent Collection Service is installed.

Operating System

The following operating systems and service packs have been certified for Ascent Capture and the Ascent Collection Service.

Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server with Service Pack 4
Windows Server 2003 (Standard or Enterprise edition)
Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 1
Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4

System Requirements

Required Connections

The Ascent Collection Service requires LAN access to the Web server.

Hardware

Hardware Requirements: Minimum

The minimum hardware requirements are:

Processor: Pentium II 800 MHz processor
System memory: 512 Mbytes of memory
Disk space: 2 GB of disk space if using Ascent Capture client installation/10 GB of disk space if using Ascent Capture standalone installation

Hardware Requirements: Recommended

The recommended hardware requirements are at least:

Processor: Pentium 4 (or higher) 1.8 GHz processor
System memory: 1 GB of memory
Disk space: 4 GB of disk space if using Ascent Capture client installation/15 GB of disk space if using Ascent Capture standalone Installation

These requirements are available for download in PDF format in the System Requirements Overview (PDF, 44 KB) and Admin System Requirements (PDF 224 KB) files.

Ascent Collection SDK Requirements

This section provides information about requirements for the Ascent Collection SDK.

System Requirements

To view the online PDF and the API HTML files:

Adobe Reader
- Version 5
- Version 6

Current version of any of the following Web browsers:

Internet Explorer
Netscape
Opera
Mozilla

To compile the C# sample Application:

Visual Studio .NET 2003
Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 1.0 Service Pack 1 (to implement DIME)

To compile the Java sample application:

Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) SDK version 1.4.2
The Axis library from the Apache project (to implement DIME)
These requirements are available for download in PDF format in the SDK System Requirements (PDF, 380 KB)file.

Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture Support

The Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture Technical Support group is comprised of three subgroups (discussed on the Support Options Web page), whose members are knowledgeable in all aspects of the Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture product and Kofax / Ascent modules, including installation, configuration, operation and development. Each group receives ongoing product training from our Engineering department relating to the general Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture product and their specific area of expertise. These groups have in depth knowledge of networking, databases, hardware, and programming which they use when assisting all supported Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture customers.

The Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture Installation, Configuration, Operation, and Web product's Technical Support group can assist with installation and configuration of the base Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture products as well as troubleshooting problems that occur in production. They have lots of experience with installation problems, batch class setup, patch code and bar code problems, hardware key issues, OCR engines, MSDE etc. They provide support for the Ascent Xtrata and Kofax Capture Import Connector - Fax / Ascent Fax products. They also can assist with the Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture Web products such as the Kofax Capture Network Server / Ascent Capture Internet Server and the Kofax Capture Import Connector - Web Services / Ascent Collection Server. They can assist with installation or connectivity problems across LANs, WANs or the Internet.

For details regarding technical support available for all Kofax products, please review the current Support Overview & Options and Product Support Eligibility Matrix Web pages.