A Solution To Manually Processing 'Entry Forms'

[loo8866]

Hi Guys,

I've been pondering over a problem for a couple of weeks now - We receive around 1000 paper entries to our competition, and these all need manually entered into the access database in a one-er.

Is anyone aware of any ideas of how this could be made easier, and more automated?

Thanks.

 

[KeithG]

The only way I can think of is to Scan them then use OCR (Optical Character Recogintion) to but the data into Access. Seems a bit advanced for your situation though.

 

[loo8866]

mm yeh i think that may be slightly unreliable too. I have pondered using online entry forms? But I have been struggling to find out who complicated it is to access the database from the web....

 

[loo8866]

If anyone has any ideas that would be great - Im lookin for a process to get info from a website to the database - one idea i have had is to have the info emailed to me then imported to the database is this poss?