On Saturday 12 November 2005 16:33, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
>       The wife has finally put her foot down and said I have to clean up the
> mess that inhabits my office which occupies our second bedroom.

I probably would tell you the same thing sadly ;P

>       A wiki is one of the first things to come to mind. I'm contemplating
> setting a wiki up on my trusty little firewall/email/squid/dns....
> server, scanning the clipping, creating an entry in the wiki, placing,
> say, the first para of the clipping in the wiki page, maybe via OCR
> software, and then attaching the scanned image to the page. This way I
> can search the wiki looking for stuff, the first paragraph of the
> article will probably tell me if its the page I'm after and if so, look
> at the scanned image for the full article.

Yes, I'd recommend tikiwiki for that, as I know they have a file gallery, 
which pretty much does what you've suggested.  I also noticed that tikiwiki 
is generally really easy to setup.

>       Does this sound like a suitable use for a wiki or am I wasting my time
> and there are more "application specific" packages out there that would
> suit my needs better? Anyone done anything like this before?
>
>       Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
>               Andrew

My 2 Cents
Chris White

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