From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"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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