Hi all

I have been searching the topic for this subject. But I could not find the exact answer i am looking for,

This is the situation

I am making a big archive with several photos for each item...I made this by relational tables...

The problem is that,, I want to scan the photo directly in to the record, because this will create a new related record in another pictures table....And this is really hard to do by hand...I want to ease this job for my users...

I guess there is already an answer to this but I could not find any

Any ideas or redirections,

Thanks

I think what you are looking for is a plug-in for FMPro called InsideScan. It can be found HERE:

http://www.powersolutions.it/en/insidescan.html

Thanks for the input,

I have setup insidescan,

But, the first problem arises in the case of communicationg with the scanner

I mean somehow the sequence should be ass follows:

1-User will press the scan button in filemaker,

2-Than, the scanner will start scanning automatically (with applescript may be)

3-Than, filemaker will understand the name and the location of the picture which is scanned, somehow

4-And import the picture into the database and create thumbnails and some other manipulations with insidescan,...

the third step gets me confused, and i cannot manage it, any suggestions...

How about scanning outside of FMP, have the scanning software automatically name the files, then import them in bulk with a script into the table for the images.

This is the approach we take in our medical practice for scanning images and works pretty well.