if you're using fax... why not an inbound fax on demand solution? put an avr menu in front that asks the user for account information (via touchtone) prior to giving them a fax tone. you could probably do this with asterisk .... but i know that companies like faxBack (www.faxback.com) support this sort of setup too. we actually went down the road with faxBack until we found out that they needed support of SIP REFER from our 3rd party SIP gateway if you're wanting to do fax over T.38 using voip. problem is... no 3rd party SIP gateway provider will support SIP REFER because it allows un-metered voip calls. with the volume of calls that we're anticipating, an analog solution just would not work... but faxBack would probably work well for what you're wanting to do. the IRS uses it... so it can't be half bad. :)
-jim On 12/6/07, E C list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you again everyone who has been helping me. I > wasn't aware of this > machine, and it is very interesting. That may be a > potential solution. > > The barcode idea is one that I have considered but it > isn't very practical > for us. The reason I say that is that we have > hundreds of customers and new > ones are added daily. Usually you'd only have one or > two documents that > need to scanned, so it would not be practical if > someone had to stop and > make barcodes and then stick them on a document (we > don't generate all of > the documents here so we can't just put barcodes on > the documents when they > are created--some of the documents in question would > be invoices from > suppliers for materials and things like that...). > > My other possible solution besides using Barcodes or > OCR is to get a > copier/scanner machine that will send emails as > described before. But what > I picture is that the machine would already know the > domain where the email > is going to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so the sales guy would > walk up to the machine > and type in the unique 5 digit id for the customer as > the email address. > Then press send. (The copy machines I have seen don't > have good ways of > typing in much beyond just numbers, so if they had to > type in the domain > name too for the email address, that would be a deal > breaker--nobody would > do it.) I'd have to find the right copy machine to do > that. I think the > Sharp AR-M277 would possibly do that, but I have to > put my hands on one to > see. I would set up the email server with a catch-all > email address that > would accept [EMAIL PROTECTED] when > [EMAIL PROTECTED] comes in, > coldFusion would POP it and then use the name as the > ID number and VOILA. > > Any more comments or ideas appreciated. > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Livingston > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:26 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: OCR Solutions > > I don't know what your budget is but we have used > these in several document > management solutions and they seem to be pretty idiot > proof. > Plus you can collect data and do ocr. > > > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/15179-15179-64195-12126-64404- > 3330619.html > > Dave > > On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Dave Watts wrote: > > >> What I actually plan to do is get a copy > machine/scanner combination > >> with a sheet feeder that can email scanned > documents. > > > > Then get one that automatically does OCR! Xerox has > solutions that do > > this. > > All you have to do is put the paper in. > > > > 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! > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294324 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
