Re: Scanning pages through a form into a database

Kofax is probably the best route for you to take. They have a nice product line up for scanning and OCR & storing images.

www.kofax.com

If you're into programming, I've heard some rave reviews of Vision Shape's tool set. But you'd be best using VB, VC or Delphi for the programming langauge.

www.visionshape.com

There are a bunch of others too, but I'll probably go with Vision Shape's when I tackle hardcore imaging.

In article <71vc5n$oa2$1_at_newnews.global.net.uk>, Jeremy Ovenden <jovenden_at_hazelweb.co.uk> wrote:
>Interesting subject Joe. Your 'rudimentary' scanning solution...I am looking
>for a way of scanning documents and only extracting the text and loading
>into Oracle db (i.e. no TIFF files to be loaded). The phases I see are
> scan
> ocr
> load into oracle
>Loading the text from a file into oracle is straightforward, but I am
>wondering what my choices are for driving the scanner? Any clues?
>
>cheers,
> Jeremy
>Joe Brown wrote in message <71vavu$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.
>>
>
>

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