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
We do this with the paper documents that travel thru our production line and get notations made on them w/ signatures, handwritten changes, doodles, whatever. If something doesn't have anything handwritten or changed, we don't bother scanning it (we can just regenerate it from the system the originally printed it). Anyway, we developed a browser interface that links the images we scan to the frame number of the bike. Then I wrote a piece in our MS Access system that when a user has an order/customer/bike displayed in front of them, they can click on a link that loads all the scans and displays all the images. I didn't write the display part so can't say what image control it may be using, but IIRC it's just IMG tags in HTML, nothing special. We use the Dosadi product for controlling the interaction with the scanner. Cheap (maybe free trial version) and it has always worked flawlessly. One trick we had to do was have a perl script running on the machines that do the scanning and is loaded at boot up. It acts as the 'listener' that fires off the scan so we don't have to bother with the bloated scanner software being in front of the user all the time. This was all mostly done just before I got here so I don't have all the details - I've just gone in from time to time for a tweak or two. -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager, MCP Bike Friday - "Performance That Packs!" www.bikefriday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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.
