Greetings, Disclaimer: This is a query from an ignorant/muddled myself
I am trying to accomplish the following: Write a small application which will allow data verification/data entry with sources from scanned images. My requirements: This application should be portable across platforms This application should be self contained. It should show the fields allowing validation It should show multi-page tiff/PDF files on one side (left, right, top or bottom) of the data entry form (The fields in the form can be in any page of the multipage images) The tiff/pdf files are residing as files in a multiple locations (on local or network storage-- nfs or cifs) with the record number as their names It should not assume that anything other than a minimal O/S with GUI is installed I should be as small as possible and should not require root/administrator privilege (I am using sqlite as the database) Runtime environment will be purely userspace. Installation has to be done as a normal user and _not_ superuser I am avoiding Java. There has to be a simpler way (Logic: If sqlite can serve my purpose of RDBMS, there should be a simpler way for forms) Effectively, the application footprint on the disk will be four to five files: Application itself (executable) Database file (containing the records) Shared objects/DLL to handle PDF and TIFF files Configuration file (to contain location pointers to the location of the Tiff/PDF files) Optionally, a lookup table for record number to tiff/pdf filename Web based could be an option. but cannot guarantee installation of much software on webserver. I working on libreoffice as an option, but 1. I have this gut feeling that such an overkill is not neccesary and Base requires Java and sqlite connector is a slight pain 2. Installing Libreoffice may not be possible always Any ideas, suggestions? (<sigh> Really miss the good old days of simplicity where applications size were much smaller than data</sigh>) Silly question: will the jquery etc serve the purpose? (no fancy Input here only numbers and strings -- not even dates) TIA -- Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
