Quote:Document management application is the need of the hour for small to medium size business as well as any average household. Integrated document management application with any other database application would add immensely to the practical use.
What I foresee is to have the ability to scan any document from inside Sesame and Sesame should give appropriate Unique name integrating the key field, date and sequential number and place the name of the document in specified natural linked form field (Natural Link, as it would expand to accommodate more documents as required. There are programs which scan the documents in PDF format such as PaperPort. If something like that could be achieved then documents can be opened, printed, emailed or faxed with a click of a button. Acrobat Readers are ubiquitous and freely available. If not pdf format, there are multi-page tiff format that could be later on converted to pdf for distribution.
There are good document management systems available but they are of little use to us unless they could be easily integrated in acceptable way with Sesame which is the heart and soul of our business.
I am aware that development team at Lantica has achieved all these capabilities in spite of not resorting to using dll files with exception of ODBC driver (that I have opted to do without) and that has made the life simpler for all the users. Is there a way to make Scanning available from inside Sesame without dll file?
I see very urgent need for such integrated application in my (medical) profession and this may be true for all different professions and businesses. We all know Sesame can do all these effectively with a little utilization of available other resources in the computer. I also believe such implementation can give Sesame competitive advantage in the market. I guess my vision is limited while the developers will have a lot broader scope in mind and I have little doubt that in due course it will be implemented in a lot better way than I could ever imagine. My only hope that it is implemented sooner. Is it too much to ask for in version 2.0?
Bharat Naik
I suspect that a lot of what you are talking about can be done in Sesame as it is - given the right external utilities. Sesame 2.0 has additional facility for working with external programs. Linux has command line tools that scanning, OCR, and document conversion that will work with Sesame.
Under Windows the difficulties come from the GUI-ish nature of the TWAIN standard for scanners (cameras, etc...). TWAIN wants to be integrated directly into the calling program and requires that a dialog box facility be available - all very not portable. And, in the end, cannot provide Sesame (directly) with the filename of scanned document. There have been some efforts into creating an open TWAIN standard that can be implemented across platforms. But from a bit of research, there has not been much motion in this direction. Generally Linux uses an open software package called SANE for scanner interface.
Much of what you describe actually sounds more like building an application in Sesame that can be configured for different businesses.
If a command line scan/OCR pdf generator could be found for windows, I can see a lot of potential...
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