Hi Kenneth,
so i guess all documents are scans, aka pictures?
You might want to look at the tesseract plugin by Keisuke, it as fairly usable
OCR.
If you have electronic documents, like doc or docx, have a look at automatic
doc-pdf conversion, i do it with a shareware called total-doc-converter.
I would advise against using a named folder structure on the server.
keep the structure in data and then just use the 4d tools to store data
externally with your own path calculated in the trigger.
example:
doc id: abcd1234def5678
path:
ab
cd
12
34
etc.
keeps content structures mall and has no problem with renaming any of the
elements (clients,projects, etc.)
You mileage may vary though.
Good luck
> Am 25.01.2018 um 18:39 schrieb Kenneth Geiger via 4D_Tech
> <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I’m beginning to work on a new project (4D v16 on Windows) for a client that
> handles a LOT of physical documents for their clients. They’ve got a huge
> storage issue and when they need to refer to a document, they spend huge
> amounts of time searching the physical files.
>
> I’ve not started prototyping anything yet but I think I’ve got a viable
> approach. The server will have a shared directory with a sub-directory for
> each of their clients. There will be a dialog where the user enters
> information about the document, including a text box where they can enter a
> brief description of the document. The user would then drag-and-drop a scan
> of the document onto the description text box and an “on drop” event would
> trigger a document capture method. This method will have to rename the
> document (the file-name will be created automatically within 4D without
> changing the extension), check that the relevant sub-directory exists on the
> server (and create it if it does not), and then save the renamed file to the
> server.
>
> If any of you have done something similar, I would really appreciate any
> feedback on my approach and would welcome any suggestions, pseudo-code, or
> code that you would be willing to share.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Ken Geiger
> Dolores, CO
> [email protected]
>
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