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I think I want a "document management solution" - though I'm not sure |
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that everyone understands the same idea by the term. |
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I've got a filing cabinet full of paperwork which is an absolute |
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nightmare to cope with. One of the key problems is that the documents |
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want to be indexed in different ways. All the documents are dated, but |
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they can be further sub-divided by subjects - lots of documents |
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appertain to several subjects. I frequently require to find either a |
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specific document, a sequence of related documents or similar. I rarely |
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need the original document - but often want a copy or just to check |
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some detail or other. Some documents are multi-page, some single |
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page... all can be easily scanned. |
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I'm interested to establish software which minimises the burden of |
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managing these documents - probably as scanned images. I'm familiar |
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with the Dj-Vu Libre library and think that format is fantastic - though |
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a less ambitious format would likely suffice (even at 200dpi grey scale |
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jpegs I get ~10,000 pages without needing more than one DVD to back |
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up...) A significant burden is in scanning and storing all these |
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documents - and this makes a good UI essential - preferably allowing a |
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single click to scan a document (incidentally can anyone recommend a |
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good, cheap, sheet-fed scanner?) before page-preview (cropping/rotating) |
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and assignment of "subject" classification and date-stamping. It would |
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be useful if there was an OCR pass in order to extract plain-text and to |
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index that - though this feature is not essential. There would need to |
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be a friendly UI in order to establish all the documents matching a |
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given subject classification (or group of classifications) - to preview |
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on-screen and offer an option to print... preferably in-order... maybe |
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with a watermark dating the copy? |
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Is anyone aware of any existing packages - preferably for Gentoo, but |
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any open-source solution would suffice. |
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Thanks in advance for any suggestions :-) |
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Steve |
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