Office Document Scanning and Imaging

[Mark A. Sam]

Hello,

I just purchased a documen t scanner. Before I did this, I read up on
Office Document Scanning and Imaging, which clamed to work with any scanner.
When I tried to select a scanner from the Document Imaging dialog box, there
was no scanner listed. This particular scanner, doesn't support Twain or
ISIS. Could this be the reason it is not listed?

Thank you for your help and God Bless,

Mark A. Sam

 

[DL]

And what was this scanner?
You installed it as per manfactureres instructions?

 

[Mark A. Sam]

Yes I installed it correctly. It is a Fujitsu ScanSnap S510.

 

[DL]

I see what you mean, which I guess means MS Doc Imaging is only available
with twain.
Allthough I use Office03 I dont use MS Doc Imaging, but use either the
scanner software or another app

 

[Mark A. Sam]

Do you have any ideas about how to scan to a document and paste it into an
Access07 attachment file from the same app?

 

[DL]

Personnally I scan, either using my scanners software, which results in an
image, or I use Acrobat to create a pdf.
I'm not sure I follow what you are trying to do with Access, but if you are
trying to add an image to an Access form its usually best to link to the
image/doc using one of the Access controls. Using a link rather than pasting
the image, as I understand it keeps the resulting Access file more compact.

 

[Mark A. Sam]

DL,

I understand what you are saying. I have set up scanning for this same
client. He has thousands of .pdf's of truckload documents stored on his
network. I also developed this same type of program that I am working on
now, with A95 years ago, scanning on a flatbed scanner and pasting the docs
into ole fields. It wasn't pretty.

A2007 has a new field type (for Access that is) called an attachment field.
It accepts multiple documents to be pasted into it, even mixed file types of
..pdf, image, text, word doc, etc. It compresses them so that the database
doesn't blow up. It also has a built in attachment manager that allows you
to add, edit, and move through the documents when the field has the focus.

What I intended to do was to initiate the scanner from the Access App,
created a .pdf and paste it right into the attachment field for a particular
record. I should have just spent a couple hundred more for a Twain scanner,
but I was interested in saving the client money, for his benefit not mine.


God Bless,

Mark

 

[DL]

good luck

DL,

I understand what you are saying. I have set up scanning for this same
client. He has thousands of .pdf's of truckload documents stored on his
network. I also developed this same type of program that I am working on
now, with A95 years ago, scanning on a flatbed scanner and pasting the
docs into ole fields. It wasn't pretty.

A2007 has a new field type (for Access that is) called an attachment
field. It accepts multiple documents to be pasted into it, even mixed file
types of .pdf, image, text, word doc, etc. It compresses them so that the
database doesn't blow up. It also has a built in attachment manager that
allows you to add, edit, and move through the documents when the field has
the focus.

What I intended to do was to initiate the scanner from the Access App,
created a .pdf and paste it right into the attachment field for a
particular record. I should have just spent a couple hundred more for a
Twain scanner, but I was interested in saving the client money, for his
benefit not mine.

God Bless,

Mark