Re: Controlling a scanner with PHP

On Tue, June 27, 2006 7:16 am, George Pitcher wrote: > I have been asked to look at extending one of my CMS systems to > incorporate > integration to a library management system, as well as LDAP and Active > Directory. http://php.net/ldap should help, though I understand that there is some stupid "gotcha" with Active Directory that trips up every user and they have to Google to find out how to fix it. > The requirement also asks for scanning and OCR of documents > to be > controlled by the CMS. > > Does anyone have any experience of implementing the scanning into a > PHP > application? I think if you Google for "PHP COM Port" you'll find hacks to control the data going out to an old-school COM Port scanner. You're on your own with fancy new USB ones. As far as the OCR goes, you could probably exec() gocr/jocr or Omni if you can afford it and it runs on your OS. If not, you could roll your own with GD, http://php.net/imagecolorat, and about 10 years of effort. I assume you realize that there is no friggin' way you can mess with the client's (browser-computer) scanner and that you need the scanner hooked up to the web-server for any of this to be meaningful. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm