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dotnet distributed apps : Built an document scanning application

Ajit
3/22/2004 10:40:47 AM

I am to start working on a new application
to scan multiple document using ASP.NET/VB.NET

If anyone can give me any lead/tips/suggession as to how to do this
it will be of great help and i will take it from there.

Ajit
3/22/2004 11:14:32 AM

Actually we are a Financial Institution
and we have many clients with lots of document for each one

Its difficult to maintain paperwork for each one of them

so we want to scan each document(single page or multiple pages) and store it
into a folder designated to that client.

So, i want to write an application which will instruct user to feed docs in
scanner and then start scanning
seamlessly and store it to a folder with the user specified doc name.

If anyone has done this or can provide me with some general idea as to how
this can be done is highly appreciated.

thx.

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CJ Taylor
3/22/2004 1:03:51 PM

Little more detail.. what do you mean multiple document scanning? Like to a
repository? processing? what?

To start with scanning, research TWAIN.

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james
3/22/2004 1:29:36 PM

If you intend to use a TWAIN device (scanner) here is a link to some VB.NET
code to help you get started. (Watch for word-wrap)

http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=1551&lngWI
d=10

This code allows you to use the scanner's software to do your scanning. You
can change it to use your own UI elements, but, then you are introducing
something that is unfamiliar to your users. Unless, you want only certain
settings and not allowing anything else (letting your user customize the
scanner settings) then I think it is better to let them use the scanner's
software as it is more familiar to them.
james

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CJ Taylor
3/22/2004 1:53:36 PM

If your a financial institution I'm sure you have a commercial copier with
scanning capability on it right?

If so, read your docs on your copier, most of that stuff is built into most
modern day (commercial) copiers. We just did the same thing here, wrote a
VB.NET app for a front end to search the respository documents, but left the
scanning and sorting to the copier.

-CJ
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Steve Haigh
4/8/2004 1:11:09 PM

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Why are you writing this application yourself? There are a lot of
products on the market that can do this for you, I have used Ascent
Capture by Kofax on a couple of projects and it is excellent. Products
almost always work out cheaper than a development project [in the case
where suiatable products exists, which in this case they do], I would

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