Inventory arrives on the dock - I would like to webcam an image directly into Filemaker inventory record, without going through an intermediary file. Is that possible?

Right now, the import picture function opens a file dialog box. I just want to IMPORT PICTURE from what is currently on the webcam. It is less time consuming and error prone that way.

Web viewer supports webcam display - does anyone know / tried getting a snapshot of a webcam picture from web viewer into a Filemaker field?? (before I spend hours banging my head against the well, trying this?)

OK, I found a couple of plug ins that may work. One supports the selection and grab of a predefined area of a screen in JPEG format (so web viewer could have the webcam up, and then grab the screen section - low res, but maybe workable).

http://mbs.geistinteractive.com/

The other, TROI Graphic Plug In -

http://www.troi.com/software/graphplugin.html

appears to work in a similar fashion.

I have not tried either - does anyone have experience with these?

OR, am I missing the boat altogether? Is there a better way to get photos directly into a record, real time? I really want the receiving clerk to bring up a new inventory record, point the camera, and click a button in the record to get the item picture into the inventory record. Moving a camera's typical non-human comprehensible file naming conventions from a folder into what may / may not be the right record would be problematic.

Take a look at this thread and see if it helps.

Link

Lee

Thanks Lee, but I did not see anything in these threads that addresses the problem. MyTwain might, IF we were running Windows.

I'm going to try these plug ins and see what I can get working, and will report back to this thread the results.

I think that InSideScan is cross platform. This topic has come up before. I don't handle my photos this way, but instead would prefer to leave them in PhotoShop, Nikon, Kodak, or iPhoto, and then use the file reference instead.

However, I just did a Goggle search for InsideScan (mentioned in the link I gave you), and it turned in a bunch of hits. Included in them was this site Link

If this isn't helpful, do a search of the forum for your keywords, do a search using the link (Search) SearchFileMaker.com at the top of the page, and/or a Google Search.

HTH

Lee

Edited April 25, 200817 yr by Guest

I found another way that seems to be working fine.

An OS X freeware application, Mullesight, works with iSight, or any of the other webcams that are supported in OS X. It displays the picture, allows a selection of a subset of the picture, and captures it to the clipboard. In FM, in the portal that I use to display the pictures for an inventory item, I can scroll to the last record, and paste the picture in. Very interactive, and Applescript aware.

Keeping the button for the import picture also allows the flexibility to pull from a stored image file.

I looked at EyeSight (close, but added another step, as it saves to a file), and PIP, which is REALLY cool, but not for what I needed it for.