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gkhewitt · 20-04-2005, 20:47

The basic and cheap solution would be seem to me to be a two-part process

1. Get a decent OCR (optical character recognition) package. This will convert all your scanned documents into actual text that can be put into Microsoft Word, for example. I don't know how much a "decent" one would cost, or what the free ones are like - it's been a while since I've looked at that market but I know the quality is good these days. Your scanner is likely to have come with one.

2. Use Google Desktop Search. On your PC (assuming it's networked to the server) create a network drive to the server and get GDS to index that. You can then search and IIRC, GDS will index the contents of documents for just such purposes.

Et voila. I hope!

20-04-2005, 20:47	#2
gkhewitt Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 128	Re: Document Storage/Retrieval Systems The basic and cheap solution would be seem to me to be a two-part process 1. Get a decent OCR (optical character recognition) package. This will convert all your scanned documents into actual text that can be put into Microsoft Word, for example. I don't know how much a "decent" one would cost, or what the free ones are like - it's been a while since I've looked at that market but I know the quality is good these days. Your scanner is likely to have come with one. 2. Use Google Desktop Search. On your PC (assuming it's networked to the server) create a network drive to the server and get GDS to index that. You can then search and IIRC, GDS will index the contents of documents for just such purposes. Et voila. I hope!