Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:33:05AM +0800, David Baxendale (GMail - Singapore) wrote: I don't think Fossil is the right tool for this, take a look at Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) as an Open Source document management system, not just an e-book reader. Calibre can't handle several

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-17 Thread Carson Chittom
Tomek Kott tkott.li...@outlook.com writes: Might I suggest the following two tools as better suited for this sort of endeavor? 1) Zotero - http://www.zotero.org/ This looks very interesting, and I can see where I might find a use for it myself in my personal life. Unfortunately, I don't

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-17 Thread Carson Chittom
C. Thomas Stover c...@thomasstover.com writes: Well if hardcopy means scanned paper (no ocr) then it sounds like a very large binary file set. I'm showing my ignorance, but does OCR matter in this case? We already have OCR capabilities, and I had intended to scan in the documents using

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-17 Thread C. Thomas Stover
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:55:09 -0600 Carson Chittom car...@wistly.net wrote: C. Thomas Stover c...@thomasstover.com writes: Well if hardcopy means scanned paper (no ocr) then it sounds like a very large binary file set. I'm showing my ignorance, but does OCR matter in this case? We

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-17 Thread j. van den hoff
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:53:43 +0100, C. Thomas Stover c...@thomasstover.com wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:55:09 -0600 Carson Chittom car...@wistly.net wrote: C. Thomas Stover c...@thomasstover.com writes: Well if hardcopy means scanned paper (no ocr) then it sounds like a very large

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-17 Thread C. Thomas Stover
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:48:20 +0100 Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: FWIW: if the documents are having to be archived for legal reasons then the OCR versions are essentially only useful for convenience in searching, and not for legal purposes. that's good information to know On Thu,

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-17 Thread David Baxendale (GMail - Singapore)
...@thomasstover.com To:fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org Subject: Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:11:49 -0600 Carson Chittomcar...@wistly.net wrote: Yes, basically, it's the probably should save for later need--mostly for legal reasons

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-17 Thread John Griessen
On 01/17/2013 02:29 PM, Carson Chittom wrote: But these are not legal documents in the sense I think you mean--contracts, etc. Our lawyer keeps those. Our use case is more of a question of one of our staff being able to find something that documents that previously we did x in case y, so if we

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-16 Thread Carson Chittom
C. Thomas Stover c...@thomasstover.com writes: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:37:46 -0600 Carson Chittom car...@wistly.net wrote: While I realize that this is a somewhat different emphasis than fossil's usual orientation, I have suggested to my work superiors that fossil may be usable for us as a

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-16 Thread C. Thomas Stover
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:11:49 -0600 Carson Chittom car...@wistly.net wrote: Yes, basically, it's the probably should save for later need--mostly for legal reasons. Currently all this is in hardcopy, as I mentioned, the volume of which has reached such a level as to be simply impenetrable;

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-16 Thread Tomek Kott
the original scanned copy. I do this for bills and such at home. I personally don't see fossil as the right tool for a document repo. Tomek Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:33:09 -0600 From: c...@thomasstover.com To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org Subject: Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-16 Thread Graeme Gill
C. Thomas Stover wrote: On the other hand, if you are trying to do actual collaborative work on documents, then it is absolutely critical that in addition to a SCM system (fossil would be great), that you move to a text/source based document generation technology. The real problem is a lack