I"m looking to set something up that's a bit like how people use FM to make ID cards. But how is it done. Most often i see a system in which a camera is attached to the computer, and on the screen they are able to adjust what they want caputered. Does anyone have some more information about this, or where i can find these setups?

Thanks

-j

Check out the Troi Grabber plug-in: http://www.troi.com

I've looked at that one, unfortunatly, it's really made for MAC, and i'm totally PC =. I don't think i want to invest in a mac just for this.

Other ideas?

Thanks.

Admittedly the Troi web page is Mac-centric, but I found this tucked in-between paragraphs...

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On Windows you need a TWAIN compatible input source, like a video camera (camcorder), and installed TWAIN drivers for this input source. It's been reported to work with the 3Com Home connect PC Digital Webcam USB.

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But the specific features that i want are mac only

From TROI:

"crop pictures to grab only the desired part of the video image (Mac OS only)

rotate pictures before grabbing (Mac OS only) "

If your needs are for still image capture as you describe, I wouldn't get the Troi plug-in, which does a lot of video stuff you don't need. Instead, if you don't already have one, I'd get a graphics program like JASC Paint Shop Pro. It's cheaper than the plug-in (no I don't work for JASC!) and you would be able to do all the image manipulation you need: cropping, rotation, get rid of red eyes etc.

So you set up the camera, take the picture, acquire the image into Paint Shop Pro, manipulate it and then ctrl +C to copy and Ctrl + V to paste into Filemaker. It's VERY easy. You could script quite a bit of this too.

Still not quite what i need. Maybe I shoudl exactly say what we do currently, and what we would like to do.

We take pictures of books, lots of books 7-8 perbook. After the pictures are taken, they are opened in photoshop, 3-4 are chosen, resized, and saved with a sequential number. All of this is done manually.

What we'd like to do...

Hook a camera into a computer that is mounted. do a basic WYSIWYG and hit a "capture button" which will automatically resize the picture and save it on the hard drive with the next sequential button. I was thinking something like what people use for ID cards since that's sort of the same thing.

Thanks

-j

Perhaps the InsideScan plug-in is what you're looking for:

http://www.powersolutions.it

I realize that it, too, has some Mac-only features -- but it's worth a shot! (no pun intended).