Document Archiving

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Chris

Anyone know of a third-party solution that allows you to
scan documents and link them to records in an Access
database?

Goldmine has a product called GoldScan designed
specifically for this purpose. Scan a document and attach
to document to a specific record (in this case a business
client or contact) and view the scanned document as an
attachment to the client's record.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
 
It sounds like he's looking for a software package that takes
a standard form, allows you to mark which fields on the form
are for what, then have a scanner scan the form, maybe 1000s
of the same given form, and then the software uses OCR
to translate the fields scanned into text and insert the information
into a database.

I would think that the OCR software that comes with individual
scanners is not set up to do mass data input into databases.

I've seen the software in 1993 designed for Windows 3.1. So
it's not new, so, what I think he's looking for is image processing
software that can recognize a form, and then process the data
through OCR technology to read the fields, organize the info
into a data stream that can be shot out to a specific database.

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A Hyperlink field is a good way to link to a scanned document.

For a basic understanding of what these are, see:
Introduction to Hyperlink fields
at:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~allenbrowne/casu-09.html
 
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