Hi all folks, I join this list recently and have no idea whether this is right place for posting following question: I am searching open source for an alternative similar to PaperPort, Pagis Pro, OmniPage or PageKeeper, applications running on Windows. They provide a platform to keep all scanned images which can then be stacked page after page, removing or re-inserting the pages stacked if required. Finally printing them as a pdf file or other format. One more important job is data searching on the scanned images. On PaperPort you can create a database bank on all scanned images and do data searching. Kindly advise whether "zope" can do the same job? Thanks in advance. B.Regards Stephen Liu
also sprach Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk> [2003.03.10.1721 +0100]:
I am searching open source for an alternative similar to PaperPort, Pagis Pro, OmniPage or PageKeeper, applications running on Windows.
Zope is an Application Server, it has nothing to do with scanning.
They provide a platform to keep all scanned images which can then be stacked page after page, removing or re-inserting the pages stacked if required. Finally printing them as a pdf file or other format.
This would not be hard to write.
One more important job is data searching on the scanned images. On PaperPort you can create a database bank on all scanned images and do data searching.
How do you want to search images? convert them to text? not Zope's job... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck note: the pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc "syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon." -- epigrams in programming
Hi Martin, Thanks for your response. martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk> [2003.03.10.1721 +0100]:
I am searching open source for an alternative similar to PaperPort, Pagis Pro, OmniPage or PageKeeper, applications running on Windows.
Zope is an Application Server, it has nothing to do with scanning.
I can use Xsane to scan but I need a desktop/platform for keeping the scanned images.
One more important job is data searching on the scanned images. On PaperPort you can create a database bank on all scanned images and do data searching.
How do you want to search images? convert them to text? not Zope's job...
I can use OCR to do the job B.Regards Stephen
Stephen Liu wrote:
I am searching open source for an alternative similar to PaperPort, Pagis Pro, OmniPage or PageKeeper, applications running on Windows.
I've used PaperPort quite some years ago and it was very nice application on functionality and ease of use. I don't think Zope is an alternative to it. Albeit you can build one with it (cf. sean's post) keep in mind zope is web oriented, ie. you would have to build an interface based on html. Are you really looking for a web application? To provide the same ease of use as PaperPort in a browser would be quite a challenge, IMHO. Someone tell me I'm wrong... (well I suppose you could combine with Java or SASH+Javascript but...). Fernando
Are you really looking for a web application? To provide the same ease of use as PaperPort in a browser would be quite a challenge, IMHO. Someone tell me I'm wrong... (well I suppose you could combine with Java or SASH+Javascript but...).
Zope would do fine on the storage/presentation side, with all the CMS stuff existing and being built. The input side would either be a PITA web form, a standalone client interacting via XML-RPC/HTTP/DAV/ZEO/etc, or maybe a XUL application on Mozilla. I doubt this exists already, but I'm sure you could find someone who would love to be paid for a week's worth of making this. --jcc
Hi Fernando Thanks for your respone. Fernando Martins wrote:
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I've used PaperPort quite some years ago and it was very nice application on functionality and ease of use. I don't think Zope is an alternative to it. Albeit you can build one with it (cf. sean's post) keep in mind zope is web oriented, ie. you would have to build an interface based on html.
I have some suggestions from other lists to do the job. What I have to do is to glue some applications with 'Perl' or 'Python' But I am inexperience. Also I am searching whether there is other easy ways
Are you really looking for a web application? To provide the same ease of use as PaperPort in a browser would be quite a challenge, IMHO. Someone tell me I'm wrong... (well I suppose you could combine with Java or SASH+Javascript but...).
No, I am not looking for a web application B.Regards Stephen
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