Joe, Don't even bother with OCR for handwritten documents it just isn't worth using. As for the document content then hold just the link in a VFP table with the document held as a .jpg or .tif image. Using General fields to embed the document is suicidal as and when you get any table corruption - its one of the few things that VFP is definitely not good at! Apart ffrom anything else you will soon bust the 2Gb barrier.
If you have a windows 98 master disk it is worth looking at the Kodak imaging activeX which is easy to use for scanning even thouth the license is strictly speaking only for Win98. Also a good start point is the article on Foxite "CONTROLLING TWAIN DEVICES FROM WITHIN VFP" by Mike Lewis: http://www.foxite.com/articles/read.aspx?id=40&document=controlling-twain-devices-from-within-vfp Dave Crozier Joe Yoder wrote: > I want to setup a system to store scans of my hand written/printed > consultant's notes from service calls to client sites. The goal is to be > able to access any page from either my server or laptop. I would like the > delay in the initial display and in switching between pages to be minimal. > Retrieval would be by client and date or by issue type. At this point I hope > to ultimately handle this in a Foxpro application integrated into Quick Books. > > Here are some specific questions: > Is there Scanner control software callable from VFP that I should consider? > What viewer and image formats should I consider? > Is OCR for handwritten stuff worth investigating? > Should I save the images in a Foxpro table or as separate files with only the > file names in the table? > As always - thanks in advance for any input! > > Joe Yoder > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: 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.
