Web Browser based document scanning

[britech]

Hi folks,

Has anyone attempted to build a web based document scanning solution?
If not, is anyone aware of such a creature existing in the clarion community ?

Look forward to your feedback.
Brian

[kevin plummer]

Hi Brian,

I think it depends what you want.

The web natively works great for displaying images and documents - so you shouldn't have a problem there.

I guess how do you get the docs and images onto the web server is the interesting part. I don't think you could control a scanner from a web page. So you either need to think about having a standalone (win32) program do that and FTP or HTTP the info to the webserver or just give your users the ability to upload the docs via your web page after they have been scanned. I do the later but also incorporate barcode naming and splitting on my server to make the process as painless as possible for our users.

HTH's

Kevin

[britech]

Hi Kevin,

I suspected that might be the case. It may even be easier for us to do it through Terminal Services.
I can do it with a fat client, but was trying to avoid installing stuff on the clients pc.
There are some twain tools that work through rdp, so I'll take another look at that.
Thanks,
Brian

[terryd]

Would this help?

http://www.internext.co.za/stefan/webtwainmultipage/

[britech]

Thanks Terry. Appreciate the link.
Cheers,
Brian