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schubec
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7 years ago

Process folder in cloud / How to start?

Hi all!

 

Here is what I want to do - the problem is, I have no idea where to start. Any links/examples/tutorials are welcome.

 

I want to provide a service for potentially all Dropbox users. So this is not just for me or a couple of company owned PCs.

 

My users/customers should place a bunch of PDFs in a certain Dropbox folder. Let's call it "input".

Then a cloud service (maybe Amazon Lambda or a Linux box with a Cronjob) fetches the PDFs, does some processing (eg. OCR, extracting barcodes) and places the files in a folder "output" plus a *.txt file with the extracted metadata.

 

I think I can get a notification with web hooks when the user places the PDFs in his folder. But how can I read these documents and move them to another folder plus add some more files?

 

Also, since this should be a paid service, is there any integration with Dropbox regarding payment?

 

Any pointers are welcome!

 

Thank you,

schube

 

 

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