🧾 Mail Attachment Downloader PRO Server

One AP invoice inbox. Automatically feeding the invoice systems you already use.

Mail Attachment Downloader PRO Server watches one or more invoice mailboxes, filters incoming messages, saves PDFs and other invoice files into structured folders, and hands them off to OCR, capture, document-management, database, ERP-import, or custom processing workflows.

No OutlookConnects directly to email servers
Folder HandoffFeed OCR, DMS and AP tools
Flexible RulesSort by vendor, subject or content
24/7PRO Server runs unattended
ChronoScan
M-Files
DocuWare
ABBYY FlexiCapture
Watched Folders
Custom Scripts & Databases
Use Case 1

Turn any mailbox into a dedicated AP invoice inbox

Collect invoice emails from Microsoft 365, Exchange, Gmail, IMAP, or POP3 and route only the documents your AP workflow needs.

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Monitor multiple invoice mailboxes

Process shared AP addresses, vendor-specific inboxes, and departmental accounts from one installation.

  • Apply global rules across connected accounts
  • Restrict a rule to a specific mailbox when needed
  • No Outlook client or browser extension required
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Filter before files reach your workflow

Use sender, recipient, subject, body, date, attachment name, extension, size, and other criteria.

  • Separate invoices, credit notes, statements, and purchase orders
  • Create vendor-specific routing rules
  • Use AND/OR logic and regular expressions for advanced matching
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Keep the intake layer under your control

Run the software on a Windows system you manage and save directly to destinations you configure.

  • Local folders, UNC paths, network shares, and NAS storage
  • Direct connection to supported email services
  • PRO Server can run unattended as a Windows Service
Use Case 2

Prepare invoice files for OCR, capture, and document management

Download, rename, organize, and optionally preserve the source email before downstream software begins classification and extraction.

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Extract useful values from the email

Pull invoice references, vendor identifiers, or other text from the subject or message body.

  • Use the Extraction Wizard for common patterns
  • Use regular expressions for complex formats
  • Reuse extracted values in folder names, filenames, scripts, or database actions
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Preserve the source email when needed

Invoices are sometimes contained in the message body, and the email itself may provide audit context.

  • Save the complete message as .eml or .msg
  • Save email text for body-only invoices
  • Keep sender, subject, timestamps, and attachments available downstream
// Input generated for a downstream capture workflow
πŸ“‚ \\AP-Automation\Incoming\
πŸ“‚ Acme Supply\
πŸ“„ AcmeSupply_Invoice_853290.pdf
πŸ“© AcmeSupply_Invoice_853290.eml
πŸ“‚ Global Parts\
πŸ“„ GlobalParts_Invoice_853291.pdf
// ChronoScan, DocuWare Import, FlexiCapture, or another configured process watches the folder
Use Case 3

Hand invoices off to the next system automatically

GearMage handles email intake and file preparation. Your OCR, invoice-capture, DMS, ERP, or custom application can handle classification, metadata, approvals, and posting.

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Write extracted values to a database

Use ODBC actions to write selected email or extracted values into database fields for tracking or downstream processing.

  • Connect to compatible SQL databases through ODBC
  • Store message details, filenames, vendor values, and processing status
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Run scripts and command-line tools

Trigger a batch file, executable, PowerShell script, or another process after a file is saved.

  • Pass filenames and extracted values as parameters
  • Move, convert, validate, or submit files to a line-of-business application
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Feed watched-folder applications

Many capture and document-management tools can import files from monitored folders or external file sources.

  • Use a local or network folder as the handoff boundary
  • Keep email connectivity separate from OCR and document workflows
Works with your existing document stack

Use GearMage as the email-ingestion layer

Mail Attachment Downloader does not need to replace your OCR, invoice-capture, document-management, or ERP software. It can keep those systems supplied with files from the mailboxes they do not reliably monitor themselves.

A real reseller workflow: email β†’ ChronoScan β†’ M-Files

Customer-deployed workflow
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GearMage Downloads invoice PDFs from a dedicated email address into a controlled folder.
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ChronoScan Watches the folder, performs OCR/indexing, and produces document metadata.
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M-Files Receives the PDF and metadata for document management and workflow.
β€œMost of my customers are using M-Files. We are using GearMage to integrate PDF files from a dedicated email address, then the files are indexed by ChronoScan and PDF plus metadata are pushed into M-Files.” β€” GearMage reseller describing a customer deployment
Hot-folder workflow

ChronoScan

ChronoScan can watch folders for incoming PDFs or images and automatically run configured capture jobs.

  • GearMage supplies the files from one or more invoice mailboxes
  • ChronoScan performs OCR, classification, extraction, and indexing
  • Processed documents and metadata can then be exported downstream
External file source

M-Files

M-Files can import or link files from external folders and can apply metadata to externally created documents.

  • Use GearMage to create a structured network-folder source
  • Import PDFs directly, or receive documents and metadata from a capture tool such as ChronoScan
  • Continue classification, workflow, approvals, and records management in M-Files
Monitored-folder import

DocuWare

DocuWare Import can monitor configured folders and transfer documents into a file cabinet using document-processing configurations.

  • GearMage downloads and organizes invoice attachments
  • DocuWare imports, indexes, archives, and routes the documents
  • The same pattern can support invoices, statements, and related AP documents
Import profile / hot folder

ABBYY FlexiCapture

ABBYY FlexiCapture supports automated document input from files, scanners, email content, and configured import profiles.

  • GearMage can act as a dedicated email-to-folder intake component
  • FlexiCapture handles recognition, classification, verification, and data export
  • Useful when email acquisition and document extraction are managed as separate layers
Folder, script, API, or database

Other DMS, ECM, ERP, and AP systems

The same architecture works with software that accepts files through a watched folder, import service, command line, database, API, or custom connector.

  • Document-management and enterprise-content-management systems
  • OCR and intelligent document-processing platforms
  • ERP import services and custom line-of-business applications
Flexible integration boundary

Why separate email intake from OCR?

A dedicated intake layer gives you independent control over mailbox authentication, filtering, retries, naming, retention, and routing.

  • Change OCR or DMS platforms without rebuilding mailbox rules
  • Send the same invoice to backup, archive, and processing destinations
  • Troubleshoot email retrieval separately from document extraction

Product names are used to describe possible customer-configured workflows. Except where explicitly stated by the respective vendors, these references do not imply a bundled connector, certification, endorsement, or commercial partnership. Compatibility depends on the downstream product edition and configuration.

One pipeline, start to finish

From mailbox to invoice-processing system

Keep each layer focused on what it does best.

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Monitor email

Connect AP mailboxes and filter invoice-related messages

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Prepare files

Download, rename, organize, preserve, and route attachments

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Extract & index

ChronoScan, ABBYY, DocuWare, or another capture system processes the document

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Store or post

M-Files, a DMS, ERP, database, or custom application receives the result

GearMage does not have to replace your invoice-processing software. It can solve the first-mile problem: reliably getting the right email attachments out of multiple mailboxes, applying consistent rules and names, and placing them where ChronoScan, M-Files, DocuWare, ABBYY FlexiCapture, or another downstream system can process them.
How it stacks up

A focused intake layer versus replacing your AP stack

Use the systems you already trust for OCR, metadata, workflow, approvals, and ERP postingβ€”while GearMage handles mailbox ingestion and routing.

CapabilityGearMage
PRO Server
Full AP automation
suite
OCR / capture
software alone
Manual email
processing
Directly monitors supported email accountsβœ“UsuallyVaries by product and editionβœ“
Creates structured local/network-folder inputβœ“Variesβœ“Manual
Advanced mailbox, message, and attachment rulesβœ“VariesOften focused on documents after ingestionβœ—
OCR, invoice-field recognition, and validationEmail-text extraction and regex; use downstream OCR for document fieldsβœ“βœ“βœ—
Approval workflow and ERP postingVia script, database, or downstream systemβœ“Variesβœ—
Can complement an existing DMS/OCR investmentβœ“May replace or overlap existing toolsMay still need reliable email intakeβœ—
Relevant PRO Server capabilities

Built for dependable email-to-document workflows

Use only the capabilities your invoice pipeline needs, from basic folder routing to custom downstream actions.

βœ“ Multi-account monitoring

Process several AP mailboxes from one installation.

βœ“ Microsoft 365, Gmail & mail protocols

Support for Microsoft 365, Exchange, Gmail, IMAP, and POP3 configurations.

βœ“ Email and attachment filters

Route by sender, subject, body, filenames, extensions, dates, sizes, and more.

βœ“ Extraction Wizard & regex

Capture values from email text and reuse them in actions.

βœ“ Dynamic folders and filenames

Create predictable input for watched-folder applications.

βœ“ Save complete emails

Preserve messages as .eml or .msg when audit context is needed.

βœ“ Negative rules

Separate missing attachments and other exceptions from the normal stream.

βœ“ Database actions

Write selected values into compatible databases through ODBC.

βœ“ Scripts and command-line actions

Trigger downstream processing after a file is saved.

βœ“ Local, network, and NAS destinations

Save files where your capture or document system expects them.

βœ“ Logs, retries, and rule control

Operate a traceable intake process instead of relying on manual downloads.

βœ“ Windows Service mode

PRO Server runs unattended without an active user login.

Connect your invoice inbox to the software you already use

Use Mail Attachment Downloader PRO Server to feed ChronoScan, M-Files, DocuWare, ABBYY FlexiCapture, your database, or a custom invoice workflowβ€”automatically and on your infrastructure.