RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-28 Thread George Pitcher
Hi guys, Back onto the original topic. I spoke to my potential client this m orning and they were just looking for the scanning steps to be recordable in the CMS - which my CMA already does. Thanks for all the positive suggestions and nice to see me starting a useful conversation for once.

[PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread George Pitcher
Hi, I have been asked to look at extending one of my CMS systems to incorporate integration to a library management system, as well as LDAP and Active Directory. The requirement also asks for scanning and OCR of documents to be controlled by the CMS. Does anyone have any experience of

RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Lauri
Probably nobody, as PHP is a Server Side Scripting Language. -Original Message- From: George Pitcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:16 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP Hi, I have been asked to look at extending one

RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I have been asked to look at extending one of my CMS systems to incorporate integration to a library management system, as well as LDAP and Active Directory. The requirement also asks for scanning and OCR of documents to be controlled by the CMS. Does anyone have any experience of

RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Lauri
Maybe JavaScript can do it for you? -Original Message- From: George Pitcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 8:01 PM To: Peter Lauri Subject: RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP Peter, I take it you have spoken to everyone on the list then? I know that PHP

Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Stut
Peter Lauri wrote: Probably nobody, as PHP is a Server Side Scripting Language. If there's one thing I hate it's needless pigeonholing. PHP is not a Server Side Scripting Language. It is a scripting language for sure, but is by no means limited to being used on a server never mind on a web

Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread chris smith
On 6/27/06, George Pitcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been asked to look at extending one of my CMS systems to incorporate integration to a library management system, as well as LDAP and Active Directory. The requirement also asks for scanning and OCR of documents to be controlled by

Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Miles Thompson
George, You always have the interesting challenges served to you. Is this at the client or the server end? Controlled through the browser? Only at the browser on the server? I think there's a discussion about .com objects in the manual. Have fun - Miles At 09:16 AM 6/27/2006, George

Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 10:31 -0300, Miles Thompson wrote: George, You always have the interesting challenges served to you. Is this at the client or the server end? Controlled through the browser? Only at the browser on the server? I think there's a discussion about .com objects in the

RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Lauri
- From: Stut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 8:11 PM To: Peter Lauri Cc: 'George Pitcher'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP Peter Lauri wrote: Probably nobody, as PHP is a Server Side Scripting Language. If there's one thing I hate

RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Arno Kuhl
-Original Message- From: Stut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 June 2006 03:11 To: Peter Lauri Cc: 'George Pitcher'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP Peter Lauri wrote: Probably nobody, as PHP is a Server Side Scripting Language. If there's

Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Brad Bonkoski
Arno Kuhl wrote: -Original Message- From: Stut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 June 2006 03:11 To: Peter Lauri Cc: 'George Pitcher'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP Peter Lauri wrote: Probably nobody, as PHP is a Server Side

RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Chris Boget
I also thought it always had to be run under a web server, and would be interested to know what the other options/ opportunities are. You can run it from the command line. See http://us3.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php thnx, Chris -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Stut
Arno Kuhl wrote: Stut, that's an interesting point you raised. I know it's moving off the original topic, but when you say by no means limited to being used on a server never mind on a web server, what is it that interprets the code and where does the output go to, or the input come from? I also

RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Miles Thompson
At 11:33 AM 6/27/2006, Arno Kuhl wrote: -Original Message- From: Stut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 June 2006 03:11 To: Peter Lauri Cc: 'George Pitcher'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP Peter Lauri wrote: Probably nobody, as PHP

RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] You can do the cron job thing and call it from the command line. [/snip] You can also execute a 'command line' php script from other applications as well. Even though 'command line' PHP scripting has some additional features we used to run PHP scripts from the command line before the

Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, June 27, 2006 7:16 am, George Pitcher wrote: I have been asked to look at extending one of my CMS systems to incorporate integration to a library management system, as well as LDAP and Active Directory. http://php.net/ldap should help, though I understand that there is some stupid

RE: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP

2006-06-27 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, June 27, 2006 9:33 am, Arno Kuhl wrote: Stut, that's an interesting point you raised. I know it's moving off the original topic, but when you say by no means limited to being used on a server never mind on a web server, what is it that interprets the code and where does the output