On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Ken Dibble <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > 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. > ------ Well do these funding sources have a specific key, code, form # on them that is captured in the scan? That may be what you need. You may have to take each image from the scanners' output and render it as PDF to search within that? Just trying to help you come up with ideas. > 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 > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/**listinfo/profox<http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox> > OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/** > listinfo/profoxtech <http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech> > Searchable Archive: > http://leafe.com/archives/**search/profox<http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox> > This message: http://leafe.com/archives/**byMID/profox/5.2.1.1.1.** > 20130422222001.01fa4130@POP-**Server.stny.rr.com<http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected]> > > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of > the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the > obvious. > -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajidmylkjb9xexdjprngqbomtkdvck_mq7uesxnhentjqtm...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

