<< PhotoLocationID OLE Object >> These pictures are wrapped in a bunch of stuff to make them function as documents that can be fed into another application for processing. I would expect them to be associated with a graphics application, but since they say MS Word it may, in fact, be that people "created" the images in Word.
In any event, I don't think there's any way to read them directly from R:Base. You'll need to either write an Access program to save the contents of each file to an image file that R:Base can read, then an R:Base program to consume the files, or else a program that will loop through the Access records, extract the image part of the file in memory, and then use an ODBC connection to the R:Base database to push the image into a varbit column. I would imagine the first option would be much easier to code since you could examine the intermediate files with Paint or something to ensure they are valid JPGs. The second method requires you to manage memory fairly directly. -- Larry
