PB 6.5, DMS application and scanner interfacing

Hello everybody,

I have a PB6.5 application and I want to store some image of documents
linked to data stored on a Microsoft SQL server 2000.

What kind of solution you can suggest for interfacing the PB appliction with
TWAIN scanners (I thik they are the more used)
or some kind of DMS (like Cofax) Any experience ?

Thanks in advance, Luca

I worked on something similar to what you are asking about on a former
project. The application I supported was PB6.5 and generated documents
we faxed to customers. We did the office automation in several steps.

The first was to integrate our app with RightFax servers so that our
users wouldn't be feeding and babysitting fax machines all day long.
The next step involved integrating all this with the document
management system my client was using, LiveLink. We added a little VB
app to the servers that captured the successful faxes and saved a copy
in the database, but also stuck that data in a database (if I could go
back and do it all over again I'd dump the VB app for a PB app or even
just have directly integrated it with our app). We had scanners but not
for new documents, they were used to capture legacy documents and used
some LiveLink partner apps to pull those scans into LiveLink.

So I can't give you a lot of meat on how you could integrate PB with
the scanners, but chances are it could be done. PB, even an older
version like PB6.5, is pretty versatile when connecting to other things
as long as there's an API. The RightFax stuff, for example, have a
formal API and even sample code on how to work with it (that was the
starting core for our VB app - unfortunately there was no PB sample,
and at the time I wasn't sure about translating the API's C data types
back to PB data types (and we were on a short deadline) so we just
pulled down their VB code and used that.

Thank for the answer Bernie, I have find a free stuff on EZTwain.com and
I'll try it.

Ciao, Luca


"Bernie" <bernard.dy@sbcglobal.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:1114139774.469380.315250@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> I worked on something similar to what you are asking about on a former
> project. The application I supported was PB6.5 and generated documents
> we faxed to customers. We did the office automation in several steps.
>
> The first was to integrate our app with RightFax servers so that our
> users wouldn't be feeding and babysitting fax machines all day long.
> The next step involved integrating all this with the document
> management system my client was using, LiveLink. We added a little VB
> app to the servers that captured the successful faxes and saved a copy
> in the database, but also stuck that data in a database (if I could go
> back and do it all over again I'd dump the VB app for a PB app or even
> just have directly integrated it with our app). We had scanners but not
> for new documents, they were used to capture legacy documents and used
> some LiveLink partner apps to pull those scans into LiveLink.
>
> So I can't give you a lot of meat on how you could integrate PB with
> the scanners, but chances are it could be done. PB, even an older
> version like PB6.5, is pretty versatile when connecting to other things
> as long as there's an API. The RightFax stuff, for example, have a
> formal API and even sample code on how to work with it (that was the
> starting core for our VB app - unfortunately there was no PB sample,
> and at the time I wasn't sure about translating the API's C data types
> back to PB data types (and we were on a short deadline) so we just
> pulled down their VB code and used that.
>