lonesomejubilee Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Hi, I saw a product that is supposed to scan a driver's license and place the text in database fields. (www.id-scan.com). I was wondering how this works, and if anyone has any thoughts about how you could go about doing that in Filemaker.... it looks cool. Vandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transpower Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 I assume that the scan results in a TIF. You could then import that into a container field in your file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanley Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 Vandy: The driver's license scanner system pulls data out of a mag-stripe, bar code (or, in the case of id-scan, using OCR technology on the actual text) on the driver's license and populates fields from that info. I couldn't tell you how to emulate id-scan's method in FMP - you'd need to know how the data is formatted for every kind of license you're going to encounter, for starters. The mag-stripe and bar code methods are much the same, but at least you're going to end up with a fairly straightforward load of ASCII data to work with. In the end, it's trial-and-error until you get the formatting right... It's a lot of work, whichever way you look at it. -Stanley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanley Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 Vandy: The driver's license scanner system pulls data out of a mag-stripe, bar code (or, in the case of id-scan, using OCR technology on the actual text) on the driver's license and populates fields from that info. I couldn't tell you how to emulate id-scan's method in FMP - you'd need to know how the data is formatted for every kind of license you're going to encounter, for starters. The mag-stripe and bar code methods are much the same, but at least you're going to end up with a fairly straightforward load of ASCII data to work with. In the end, it's trial-and-error until you get the formatting right... It's a lot of work, whichever way you look at it. -Stanley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanley Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 Vandy: The driver's license scanner system pulls data out of a mag-stripe, bar code (or, in the case of id-scan, using OCR technology on the actual text) on the driver's license and populates fields from that info. I couldn't tell you how to emulate id-scan's method in FMP - you'd need to know how the data is formatted for every kind of license you're going to encounter, for starters. The mag-stripe and bar code methods are much the same, but at least you're going to end up with a fairly straightforward load of ASCII data to work with. In the end, it's trial-and-error until you get the formatting right... It's a lot of work, whichever way you look at it. -Stanley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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