diff --git a/docs/advanced_usage.md b/docs/advanced_usage.md index 89530db7f..957d5287e 100644 --- a/docs/advanced_usage.md +++ b/docs/advanced_usage.md @@ -589,6 +589,12 @@ case, Paperless will remove the staging copy as well as the scan, and give you a message asking you to restart the process from scratch, by scanning the odd pages again, followed by the even pages. +It's important that the scan files get consumed in the correct order, and one at a time. +You therefore need to make sure that Paperless is running while you upload the files into +the directory; and if you're using [polling](/configuration#polling), make sure that +`CONSUMER_POLLING` is set to a value lower than it takes for the second scan to appear, +like 5-10 or even lower. + Another thing that might happen is that you start a double sided scan, but then forget to upload the second file. To avoid collating the wrong documents if you then come back a day later to scan a new double-sided document, Paperless will only keep an "odd numbered @@ -597,11 +603,11 @@ scan a completely new "odd numbered pages" one. The old staging file will get di ### Interaction with "subdirs as tags" -The collation feature can be used together with the "subdirs as tags" feature (but this is not -a requirement). Just create a correctly named double-sided subdir in the hierachy and upload -your scans there. For example, both `double-sided/foo/bar` as well as `foo/bar/double-sided` will -cause the collated document to be treated as if it were uploaded into `foo/bar` and receive both -`foo` and `bar` tags, but not `double-sided`. +The collation feature can be used together with the [subdirs as tags](/configuration#consume_config) +feature (but this is not a requirement). Just create a correctly named double-sided subdir +in the hierachy and upload your scans there. For example, both `double-sided/foo/bar` as +well as `foo/bar/double-sided` will cause the collated document to be treated as if it +were uploaded into `foo/bar` and receive both `foo` and `bar` tags, but not `double-sided`. ### Interaction with document splitting