On Saturday 12 November 2005 17.11, Chris White wrote: > 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
I'm regularly scanning most dead-tree info that comes my way, and filing it away. I bought a cheap HP all in one gadget (d125xi ~200€) that has a document feeder on top which works really well up to ~40 pages per batch. Its operation is easily scriptable and together with imagemagick you can do some nice post-processing. However, I haven't found a good OCR program yet. That is the major hurdle. Searchability is the really important thing. The space saving and portability is nice enough though, for the moment. I heard that Adobe has a windoze only software that can do this reasonably well, but I haven't researched it further. Jimmy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
