Having worked with "Documents" and Management of said docs. There are
specific keys in the document that are captured in the scan. Think bar
codes as ids for what type of doc. On top of that there should be other
barcodes for what the doc pertains to.
Granted this was for the court system where we had hundreds of standard
docs on file in Word templates.
The scanner picks up the entire image as well as the data off the barcodes,
and in our case we knew where the text boxes on the form were and presented
them to an operator on an input screen to see the doc and the text we were
going to insert into the db.
Granted our system was huge and not cheap at all.
Huge, but also apparently homogeneous and fully controlled.
My system will (it's only getting started), involve hundreds of types of
documents whose formats are not controlled by us. They are provided by
various contractual funding sources. They are not gonna put bar codes on
them for us, nor will they permit us to alter them.
On top of that, the main purpose of the system will be, at least for now,
to archive hundreds of thousands of already-existing pieces of paper that
only vaguely correspond to any uniform system. These pieces of paper all
relate to a "client" in some fashion, so we may, perhaps, be able to
generate paper showing bar codes tied to each client that can be
interleaved with the other pieces of paper being scanned in order to cause
the system to know where to put stuff, at least initially. It is unlikely
that we will also be able to produce bar codes that will tell the system
what kind of document each piece of paper is. Well, we could produce them,
but consider the training cost and error rate involved in getting an
operator to figure out when and how to use all of those things.
We've hired a full-time person who is going to have to pick through all
this stuff and figure it out, probably at a painfully slow pace.
The system we're using is Treeno. It's already ugly...
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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