Ben, This was a great reply. It does validate my approach. I am just worried that it won't be simple enough for some people.
I am going to play with this a bit on my own, and try to make the work flow as straightforward as possible. Thanks. Kevin On 10/10/05, Ben Mehling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/10/05, Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmmm.... what are you all doing for upload scanning/rotating/manipulation > etc.? > > > > My current system is to allow the user to select an image file to > > upload. I.e. I don't have integrated TWAIN interface etc. > > > This is only detail to add to Todd's reply: > > 1) We've bypassed the TWAIN aquisition bit in favor of a 'file selection' > interface similar to the one you've implemented. > > This may validate your own solution: Customers didn't seem to want to have > clerks messing w/ image aquistion settings on an image-by-image basis. > Instead we've specified a medium duty, auto-fed, 'one button' scanner. > Simply lay the papers on the scanner and push a button on it -- configured > properly it will drop the appropriate file in a designated folder on a > computer/network share. This also means that we're device/interface > agnostic, so users could attach/use any device/software combo they want... > > For reference, we're using the FUJITSU SCANSNAP FI-5110EOX2 (15PPM, 600DPI, > USB 2.0) which was about $420 online. > > 2) Our file selector dialog allows the user to preview all images in a > folder (via thumbnail) and individually when selected (in a preview pane). > Before attaching, the user can rotate the image to the proper orientation if > needed. We are considering allowing cropping too. Also, the dialog allows > the user to adjust which note the image is attached to and a few other > properties. > > 3) As Todd mentioned, Adobe PDF docuemtns were a definite requirement. > > Hope that's useful data, > - Ben > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
