Re: sucking rumpled notes into Pick


"Ross Ferris" wrote
And here was me thinking you were going to share a native mv imaging
control to take in REAL rumpled notes!


"Frank Winans" responded:
Nope, that would be a so-called "softcopy" arrangement.
<Managers love the concept of softcopy; they drool over
the idea of laying off any/all paper-shuffling staff. >

You could cobble various 3rd party software together to
get a logged-in vm user's winbox to scan that note in
to a TWAIN interface scanner as c:\foo.tif

BTDT. We scan/archive documents via an ActiveX control on an
HTML page that uses a TWAIN wrapper to handle (theoretically)
any TWAIN-compliant scanner. Like anything else, it starts
out rather simple, then gets nasty. ADF? Duplex scanning?
Letter? Legal? Then there's the whole TWAIN compliancy.

and even coax their windows box into pushing that tif file
over to the native os side of your vm server,

BTDT. Surprisingly difficult, this bit of coaxing, as IE
works against you the entire way.

but I don't think you'd be happy with having a batch mode
ocr program try to figure out what words were on the note
so you'd have it as attributes in an item.

IAWT.

OCR just stinks, really.

You need to look at a better brand of OCR s/w!
There's some out there that do a pretty good job.
Not good enough that I'd want to rely on OCR as
an integral part of an app I have to maintain,
though. So I guess I'm saying that good OCR
s/w doesn't stink... it just smells.

And as administrator you'd go nuts racing around
troubleshooting all the secretaries that are rotten at running
a scanner.

With an ActiveX control driving a wrapper that drives TWAIN
that drives the scanner, you can simplify the UI so that it
is just "Load the Document" then "Click to Scan."

Not to mention you'd be the
"coal miner's test parkeet" for gradually diminishing LAN
quality over the years; that is, you'd have one of THE most
sensitive apps in the building for degraded network quality.
Did I mention that once you set up a softcopy situation,
sudden malfunction becomes grade "AAA" crisis?

What is this "diminishing LAN quality" of which you speak?
In my experience, LANs have been getting better over the
years, not worse; i.e. 100Mb is better than 10, and Gigabit
is better than 100. And CAT5 cables don't suddenly break.
Plus any LAN has packets, and checksums, and error detection.
Maybe I've just been lucky to never see LAN degradation?

--
frosty


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