From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Do you guys have such things as "interns" (college students
looking for work experience as part of their college education)?  We had
the same situation, and solved it with two Fujitsu scanners, and using
Adobe Acrobat, to capture straight from the scanner to the PDF of the
contract.  End of scan asks for a file name, which was the contract number
written on the first page.

2 interns did the whole shebang in a couple of months.

Now, we're using a custom Filemaker Pro database that has all the technical
details in it, linked to the songs covered by the contract, and which CD's
the songs are used in.  When you want to see the controlling contract, for
further information, there is an add in DLL that when you click on the
song, it calls the appropriate DLL into Adobe Acrobat Reader embedded into
the database display.  We do a bunch of song reuse, so this is very
necessary for us to have access to the controlling contract on each song as
it's used/reused.

--
Glenn M.


"Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message news:403b7a71{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
> news:MPG.1aa4cf27e87d417698bf95{at}news.barkto.com...
> > > I haven't used Paperport software since the original roll scanners on
> Win 95.
> > > They sold the software to another publisher?  How solid is it?
> >
> > I use it a lot for keeping my PDF files straight (either downloaded or
> > created in  WordPerfect). Just in website articles I have about 3/4 gig,
> > all very easy to find.
>
> I was actually today looking into PaperPort. I was hoping to find a demo
> version but didn't (at least yet - I almost died after watching that
stupid
> flash "demonstration" stuff and had to take a break), so
maybe you could
> answer one question: we have a bunch of contracts on paper that we'd now
> like to scan (yes I know, how about some planning ahead before there are
> 15.000 contracts ) and store in a server. It would be alright to have
the
> contract number as a file name, and we've already got a big scanner in
which
> we can just pile the paper in and it will scan one page as one image (I
> think it can do pdf as well but haven't gotten that far yet).
>
> So: is PaperPort capable of finding a number (8 digits mostly) from a
> (almost) fixed point in a scanned image or pdf file, and then use it as
file
> name, in a batch mode? It seems that we could do it one by one, but that's
a
> definite no-no as there are roughly 15.000 pages of this stuff...
>
> Any info appreciated.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (my backup plan is to take a vacation and shout just as I'm heading out
the
> door: "oh and there are a few documents on my desk that need scanning,
would
> you mind doing it while I'm gone, thanks!" to some poor sob who happens to
> be near )
>
>

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