Make use the time of the acquisition.
There are steps should be performed per image and can be done right after the image is available. These steps are checking the images and preprocessing them. The process does this steps would be able to check the machinery of the microscope and send warnings to the right person if something happens (like the microscope stops acquiring).

In the “Process Files” step (see graph above), different image checks and processings should be done:

• Create thumbnails
• Quality inspection
• Shading overview
• Metadata extraction
• File format conversion / compression

The created files, should then be placed in the corresponding openBIS dropbox for storage.