> 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.
And I appreciate it.
Some do have that kind of stuff, some don't. It's gonna be a nightmare.
I told them it would be cheaper to just rent a storage locker, fill it with
file cabinets, make copies of the paper documents, and store 'em there.
Then they could only use "document managment" with new, electronic
documents. But noooo...
So then I told them that any commercial document management system for our
needs would be like pounding in wire brads with a sledge hammer. I begged
them to let me develop a system to route stuff scanned with a TWAIN scanner
to a sensible storage hierarchy, but noooo... That would take too long,
they said.
So they bought this software last spring. I've had a server sitting,
running, with the software on it, since last July. Not one document has yet
been "managed" with it. We are just now at the point of having the first
administrative training on this new system. I could have had a much simpler
and cheaper system in place by now.
Oh well...
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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