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Travis
I am trying to implement the ancient dream of the "paperless office",
or at least go some way toward it.
Having just purchased a nifty high speed scanner (twain and ISIS
compatible) one of the functions of the database that I am building, in
addition to holding client data, is to hold a record of all
communication including scans of letters, application forms etc.
I know that ideally the database should have links to the scanned
documents (mostly in PDF format), rather than hold the scanned
documents themselves, but even if I do that I still want to be able to
call the scanner from inside my Access application, scan to PDF and
have Access save the document in an appropriate directory (e.g.
....data/clientname/letters or data/clientname/applicationforms etc) and
semi-automatically add a record and pop up a field to be filled in
allowing the user to describe the document for filing and search
purposes.
Any tips, web sites, book references or whatever that you can give
would be greatly appreciated.
Travis
or at least go some way toward it.
Having just purchased a nifty high speed scanner (twain and ISIS
compatible) one of the functions of the database that I am building, in
addition to holding client data, is to hold a record of all
communication including scans of letters, application forms etc.
I know that ideally the database should have links to the scanned
documents (mostly in PDF format), rather than hold the scanned
documents themselves, but even if I do that I still want to be able to
call the scanner from inside my Access application, scan to PDF and
have Access save the document in an appropriate directory (e.g.
....data/clientname/letters or data/clientname/applicationforms etc) and
semi-automatically add a record and pop up a field to be filled in
allowing the user to describe the document for filing and search
purposes.
Any tips, web sites, book references or whatever that you can give
would be greatly appreciated.
Travis