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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:52:54 -0400 (EDT) |
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A. Khattri wrote: |
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> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: |
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> > Alfresco is what I'd have called a content management system - as |
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> > opposed to a document management system. I'm interested in managing |
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> > archives of documents I have received from other people (in dead-tree |
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> > format)... |
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> If there was something that scanned the document, performed OCR on it, |
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> checked the OCR output and then built an electronic repository for you I'd |
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> recommend it. Until then, Alfresco is the closest thing Ive seen that is |
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> open source. If you're willing to do your own scanning and OCR'ing then it |
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> will do the rest. |
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> BTW, I would call things like Mambo or Xaraya, content-management tools - |
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> Alfresco is a slightly different kettle of fish. |
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Yes I know what Steve is after, and I'd love to find a way. I was put |
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off by Alfresco being called "Content Management" because all of the |
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content management systems I have seen end up bioding something that |
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resembles [name your favourite news website] |
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A closer look at alfresco reveals that it does look more like what Steve (and I ) are after. |
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I am a lawyer and I handle hundreds of documents every week, from email |
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through pdf (both made from an electronic source and therefore has all |
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the text available, and scanned) openoffice (one enlightened client!), |
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word, excel, html, faxes, letters (on paper, ya know!) you name it |
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someone will send me something in it! |
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It'd be great to have a metadata system where I could give everything |
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some keywords: |
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client name, file number, matter number, subjects, useful as a |
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precedent, useful case etc etc etc so that in future I can : |
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pull up every document on my computer, my secretary's computer, my mail |
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server (including attachments), my file server, my palm pilot, relating |
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to a particular client |
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pull up every document about company debentures |
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find the case i downloaded and stored somewhere about liability of |
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guarantors in a consumer credit loan |
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find the seminar book for the seminar i went to on asome new area of |
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law. |
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find a letter written by Joe Bloggs sometime in 2003. |
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