one quick note here... if you're using fax... efaxdeveloper.com has the whole package... they will generate the datamatrix barcode via a servlet for you, and they will check incoming fax for a barcode. the api passes you an xml packet via http post (there are other methods available) that contains the information found in the barcode along with the fax document in base64. that's what i'm currently using for the project i've been working on, but because of the costs associated with efax, we'll soon be moving to another fax provider... and will start using something more along the lines of the java4less stuff to handle the barcode creation and reading.
-jim On 12/5/07, Ryan Stille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone else been having problems with the list missing emails, or > coming through 8+ hours after it was originally posted? I don't have > the original message for this thread. The web archive shows it was > posted around lunch today. > > Anyway, I am going to need to implement something like this soon. Our > images will come in via email, then I need to OCR a customer ID out of > it and import appropriately. > > I was looking at JavaOCR (http://javaocr.com) and Asprise OCR, also > written in Java. So they should easily integrate with ColdFusion. > Neither are free. > > There are also several (free) open source OCR packages: > > GOCR http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ > Ocrad http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html > Tesseract > _http://google- > code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-ocr.html_ > > But I have not looked into any of them yet. But the barcode stuff Jim > Rising mentioned (glad I checked the archive, as I don't have that email > either...) looks very interesting, and it looks like its a lot cheaper > than OCR. My images are actually coming in via fax, so OCR'ing that > quality of an image may be a challenge. I think the barcode may perform > better. > > -Ryan > > Dave Watts wrote: > >> Does anyone know of any ocr solutions that can be made to > >> work with ColdFusion? What I'd like to do is have documents > >> scanned and emailed to a coldFusion server and then OCR'ed to > >> find a person's name or account number. The number will be > >> used to match the document to a database record so the > >> document can be attached to their account. > >> > > > > Since lots of scanners come with OCR solutions, why not do it there? > Adobe > > Acrobat does this quite well, in my opinion. > > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294304 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
