What do you do for scanning from withing Filepro

[Bob Rasmussen]

It sounds like you're looking for two things: a confirmation of your 
general approach to storing scanned documents, and software that will 
programmatically do the scan. Right?

On the first issue, I believe you're on the right track in using linked 
files. This approach allows other software to access and print those 
scanned documents. The alternative approach, storing scans inside blobs 
inside filePro, would make access and printing much more difficult.

On the second part, you might look at Print Wizard. It provides (among 
other things) a command-line driven way to scan a document and store it in 
a specified filename and format. This can optionally be done with no user 
intervention; the command line can specify scanner name (any 
TWAIN-supported scanner), number of pages to scan, duplex or not, 
sheet-fed or not, density, color/gray/B&W, region of the page to scan, and 
so forth. The EXE call can return a result code that indicates success or 
failure.

Print Wizard can also print, convert, or email the stored documents, 
either alone or as part of a larger print job such as from filePro.

A demo version is available. A sample command line, to scan interactively, 
is:
    PRINTWIZ SCAN:// PDF://c:\temp\scan001.pdf

A sample to scan WITHOUT user intervention, is:
    PRINTWIZ SCAN://?format=color?density=300?show=false 
c:\temp\scan002.tif
(all one line).

I'm always happy to help.

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Boaz Bezborodko via Filepro-list wrote:

> I'm  looking to scan in files linked to specific Filepro records. This is the 
> first time I'm doing any kind of work like this.
>
> What methods do you folks use to accomplish this?
> What software/hardware combinations make it easier?
>
> I was thinking of creating separate documents, saved to specific directories, 
> and storing the file names and locations in the record.  But I don't know 
> what software to use that could trigger the scan and specify the file name, 
> directory, etc.
>
> I'm working with Filepro 5.6.10R9 running on Windows7 machines.
>
> Thanks,
> Boaz
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