haha... ryan stille asked me the same thing. :) here is what i replied:
we've been using the efaxdeveloper api to handle all of this right now, and have not started testing the java4less stuff yet. the company i'm working on that for is wanting to release to beta using efax and then evaluate other options later. unfortunately, with the way that the agreements are setup with the contract i'm on, i can't give out any of the efaxdeveloper code i'm working on... but i could possibly work on the java4less stuff for you and build a CFC wrapper for it that you could use it to generate barcodes and read them. shouldn't be too hard. -jim On 12/6/07, Mark Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim, > > Do you have any CF code using that java4less vision jar? > > -mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Rising [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 6:54 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: OCR Solutions > > 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! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294335 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
