fsWatcher – a server to watch and process folders

The problem —

• Ricoh/Lanier scanner cannot save PDF files on the domain server.
• We went through creating various user accounts and tweaking the security permissions on the server without luck.
• The Ricoh dealer sent several technicians to work on the problem.  We also worked with Ricoh’s phone support.
• The scanner could not save to a shared folder on a Windows XP computer either.

The solution —

• Configure scanner to save PDF files to a VMware virtual machine’s folder.  The virtual machine is running Windows 2000 Pro.
• An IronPython script was created that watches the virtual machine’s scanner folder.
• The script copies PDF’s to the scanner folder on the domain server.