Once you save it as a jpg though you lose all OCR capablities. I have never known a program to be able to take a jpb and get text out of it, not say there isn't any. Usually they take a tiff file and you can get text from that. I am not familiar with adobe capture, but if you can scan in a form and OCR then it should be fine, but as with any experience I have ever had, if the form is not perfectly crisp, there is writing on it, or it's in a weird format you need human intervention to get it looking right.
Robert Everland III Web Developer Extraordinaire Dixon Ticonderoga Company http://www.dixonusa.com -----Original Message----- From: FlashGuy [mailto:flashmx@;rogers.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:02 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Your toughts on a project It would work if the customer had Adobe Capture on their PC, right? Scan the form and save as jpg and pdf and then upload to the server. On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:51:21 -0500, Robert Everland wrote: > The problem with developing your own is that you will need to develop > your own house brand OCR. OR you have them upload graphics and give > summaries of what is on them and then look them up that way. Adobe > can't convert graphics into text. > > Robert Everland III > Web Developer Extraordinaire > Dixon Ticonderoga Company > http://www.dixonusa.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: FlashGuy [mailto:flashmx@;rogers.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:49 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Your toughts on a project > > > I have the opportunity to develop a database project on the side. > > The customers will be uploading and indexing graphic files (invoices, > shipping etc). Also a lookup function for people to look and or print > documents stored in jpg, gif, pdf > > What software is out there that allows me to upload graphics, index > the files and do searches. I would think the graphic files would have > to be converted on the server to PDF, and indexed for searching? Is > this what Adobe Capture does? Are there other products out there? > > Has anyone developed such a product? > > I know one exists already (http://www.speedscan.com/) but I want to > develop one myself. > > Any tips would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > Colonel Nathan R. Jessop > Commanding Officer > Marine Ground Forces > Guatanamo Bay, Cuba > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_community Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
