Scanning Documents

[MelJ]

I'm just starting to learn FMP and have a Question. If you care to answer it please don't go into detail because I can assure you I won't understand your detailed reply.

Is it possible to scan a document directly (or as directly as possible) to a container field?

I'm working to convert my office to "paperless"...or as close as I can get.

Thanks,

Mel

[CyborgSam]

Mel->

Welcome to the forums!

You could theoretically have a script scan to a file and then tell FileMaker to import the file into a field.

For a paperless office, you may want to consider OCR software. Many documents are more usable if they're in text instead of an image.

[MelJ]

Thanks for the reply Cyborg,

I'm quite familiar with OCR and it's got a LOOOOOOONG way to go before you could let it go on it's own. I rarely OCR a document that doesn't need allot of editing.

Thanx,

Mel