Scanning to Access 2007

[jsbarroso]

:banghead: Hello everyone,
I need your help. I have been asked to create a database very quickly for a small group that needs to scan multiple pages into an Access 2007 form. They they would like all scanned documents to be converted to PDF and stored on a shared network folder which can be accessed by their group. I have tried several ideas posted but, I have been unable to get any to work correctly. Does anyone have a sample of working database that the scanning portion is working? I am so involved with other projects right now that I just don’t have the time to create a scanning process on the database.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Jerry

 

[CJ_London]

Can you clarify what you mean by scanning? Do you mean scanned as a document to produce a pdf or image file?

 

[jsbarroso]

The users would scan documents to produce a pdf/image files.

 

[CJ_London]

OK, you mention multiple pages - so can your scanner be set up to take a stack of papers, scan each one and save to disk as a pdf with some form of incremental number naming (e..g.Scan1, Scan2, etc)?

If so, then access could then read the filenames into a table and a form can be set up to open each one (no need to store the documents in access at all)

The main problem is indexing - the number won't mean anything unless the user can input a more relevant name as it is scanned in.

I'm actually knocking off now so will continue tomorrow

 

[CJ_London]

@Pat - kind of what I was suggesting!