Re: Scanning pages through a form into a database

From: Jeremy Ovenden <jovenden_at_hazelweb.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 17:39:12 -0000
Message-ID: <71vc5n$oa2$1_at_newnews.global.net.uk>


[Quoted] Interesting subject Joe. Your 'rudimentary' scanning solution...I am looking for a way of scanning documents and only extracting the text and loading into Oracle db (i.e. no TIFF files to be loaded). The phases I see are

    scan
    ocr
    load into oracle
Loading the text from a file into oracle is straightforward, but I am wondering what my choices are for driving the scanner? Any clues?

cheers,
  Jeremy
Joe Brown wrote in message <71vavu$c4l$1_at_apache.dtcc.edu>...
>Forms does not have a built-in ability to interact with a scanner.
>
>I have not come across an add-in that will work with forms in such a
>manner.
>
>(/If I could could come up with another ryhme, this could be a poem/)
>
>www.kofax.com is one of the best solutions for your needs, though
>there are others.
>
>I have munged together a rudimentary scanning solution, w/scanning
>software that came with the scanner, and forms built-ins, however this
>solution is not vary practicle.
>
>Another thing you should be aware of: Forms doesn't support
>multi-page tiffs, and has a limit of 64k when working with tiffs.
>
>For these reasons, forms is not a viable for an imaging solution.
>
Received on Fri Nov 06 1998 - 18:39:12 CET

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