Karen, The ActiveX component for this is Non-Visual. His scanner is for Drivers Licenses and it captures (OCRs) the DL data and writes it to (whatever output you specify).
There is a VBScript in the SDK I'm looking at and when it is working OK, I'll see if I can get it going for him 100% in RBase (No VB App Req'd). ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 1:06 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: 6.0 VB > Fabian: > > A couple years ago I wrote an extremely easy VB application to do something > similar. The client has a machine that captures a signature, like what a > FedEx > driver would have. The VB app stays up and running, as soon as they sign the > box, the signature shows up on the VB form. There's a button to capture the > signature to a file; the code captures to the same filename every time. > Then when they know the signature is out there, the RBase program is brought > up > and they press a button to bring that signature in. But it does not launch > RBase. Is this what you're talking about? > > But in order to do the VB part, the hardware supplies a .DLL that has to be > made part of the VB app and actually "placed" on the form the way you place > an > RBase control on the form. When I did the program for the client, they had > to send me the physical device so I could install it here. > > Karen > > >> I need a VERY simple application: >> >> 1) A user places a licence on the scanner. >> 2) The image is stored on disk with the same name every time. >> 4) The OCR data is stored to a text file with the same name every time. >> 5) launches RBASE with a file called scanner.dat >> >> I would take off from there with RBASE. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Fabian Ferreira >> > >
