[Zope] Whether Zope can do the job

[Stephen Liu]

Hi sean,

Thanks for your advice.

On Linux I can do all jobs separately with the assistance of several 
applications but not in one go.  I am looking for an out-of-the-box 
solution.

sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
> Consider using the CMF, perhaps Plone. http://plone.org

I have been searching for plone.org mailing list on its website but 
could not find it.

> Zope could be a good document management system, in this case, with the
> assistance of automation-capible OCR (like OmniPage automated via COM
> interface).  You would bave to be able to extract text-metadata out of a
> document, so obviously you need a content-type in Zope or the CMF that is
> capable of taking an image and/or PDF file containing raster data, storing
> it, and being able to pass it to an external filter for the acquiring of
> text metadata.  You would just need to write a Zope python product that, for
> example, with the CMF, defined a method called SearchableText() for your
> 'document'/image that served up (potentially cached) text extracted from an
> OCR system.
> 
> You would have to, of course, write an application that fed Zope the scanned
> images in order, or at least uploaded them and set metadata.  There are many
> possible ways to do this (ZEO, XML-RPC, etc).

ZEO, XML-RPC, etc. are new to me.  I will make a search with google later.

> Combining the pages could be done with commercial PDF libraries, including
> PageCatcher, which is a commercial, Python-based PDF aggregation
> library/utility. http://www.reportlab.com/pageCatcher/index.html  There are
> likely open-source solutions to this as well (in the xpdf package?),
> perhaps.

I already solve this problem re page combination.  There are many 
solutions.  Even a word-processing application can do the job.

> So, yes, Zope could do this job, but you would have to write the code (feed
> scans into Zope, CMF content type) needed and pick decorating software
> components (OCR, PDF aggreagation) necessary to do it.

Is there any hint to start


B.Regards
Stephen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Liu [mailto:satimis@icare.com.hk]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:22 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Whether Zope can do the job
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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