Hi Mat Thank you very much for the response.
I am pretty new to filenet document imaging myself. But from what I have been told, what it does it takes a snapshort of a document & stores it as a (single/multi-part) TIFF image. As for searching, I think filenet has some sort of an search engine which can search within TIFF files. I d/l'ed a trial ActiveX component from http://www.informatik.com/tiffdll.html and am trying to put it into a LotusScript (similar to VisualBasic) agent. Lets see how we go. Pretty sure there would be a Java API out there which can convert text to tiff format. If I find something, I will keep you (all) posted. Thanks again. Regards Puneet >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/02 10:48am >>> Well, first I don't know anything about FileNet but I'll ask a few probing questions first. 1) Do you really need to put it in a TIFF format? Is this required? Image formats are highly unusable for text data. Meaning that they take up a huge amount more space, you can't edit them, and no searching is available. (With efficient means of course). 2) Would converting to PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader format) be ok? PDF files can be read by pretty much any platform including PDAs and some cell phones. If PDF is ok then you can find a few Java APIs that can get the data into a PDF format. Search the archives for numerous discussions on this. OK, now that that is done, I will assume that if you are reading this you absolutely need a TIFF format. One way would be to create an image in Java and using the Java2D API (I believe) you can add text / lines / etc. to it. Then you can export this image to a TIFF format using some type of a Java Image - TIFF converter. I'm not sure about TIFF but I know that some file formats are copywrited (like GIF) and you should get a license if you write your own converter. You'll probably be better off finding one already somewhere on the web that you can use for free or buy. The developer should already have taken care of lecensing issues for the TIFF format if there is any. Hope this helps! Matt On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Puneet Mathur wrote: > Hi all > > This one is just a bit off the main discuession stream but thought someone in the >forum might have done this before. > > The situation is that I need to convert documents in a Lotus Notes database into >TIFF image format sothat they can be stored into our document imaging/archiving >(FileNet) system. > > What I was thinking was to write a Java agent (java application) which reads each >document in the database, convert it into a text/csv format (I think I should be able >to do this), them convert this text/csv file into an image file (TIFF). > > Has anyone come across any APIs which convert text file to image file? > > Any help will be highly appreciate. > > Thanks in advance. > > Puneet > > > > ********************************************************************** > ***** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ***** > This document should be read only by those persons to whom > it is addressed and its content is not intended for use by > any other persons. If you have received this message in > error, please notify us immediately. Please also destroy and > delete the message from your computer. Any unauthorised form > of reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited. > St.George is not liable for the proper and complete transmission > of the information contained in this communication, nor for any > delay in its receipt. > ********************************************************************** > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html> LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
