There are ways of doing this, but the OCR software would have to be damn good. The fax is turned into a TIFF image (special multi page fax TIFF) which can then be OCR'd...parsed...and inserted into the DB. The downside of course is that the OCR may not work right which could cause your parsing script to fail....blah blah blah
If you are only grabbing a small nugget of info off the faxed page, you could have some unique identifying characters around the text you want to parse out....that would help with finding it (no garuntees as to the final OCR'd text) HTH Bryan Stevenson VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. p. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Allaire Alliance Partner www.allaire.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Bost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:47 AM Subject: Fax into database > I may be trying to reach too far here, but I'm > wondering if anyone has attempted to parse a fax to a pc & insert into > database > as to eliminate all the data entry, or if even i its possible. > > If anyone has any ideas,suggestions, please let me know. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
