Scanning / Document Management

fnbcprog

Is there any imaginable way that PHP/MySQL would be able to serve as a document management system.

I want to be able to scanning with IE/Firefox and use MySQL to store the reference to a file system document.

If it is not possible, then I would love to find a way to use .NET and IE to setup some sort of activeX component. Any ideas on this path would help too!

I am looking for any direction in the area. Your ideas whether simple/complex, I would love to hear them!

Roger_Ramjet

fnbcprog wrote:
I want to be able to scanning with IE/Firefox

??? don't know about scanning with a browser ???

What do you mean?

Anyway, php is a server-side language while browsers are client applications. Now it is, I have been told, possible to create and compile php apps that will execute without a webserver, but too difficult to be worth the effort. You might just as well learn and use java which is admirably suited to the task.

PHP/MySQL would be perfectly suited for a document management system once the docs exist though.

Is it that your scanner has a web interface which has got you thinking along these lines?

fnbcprog

Do you have any links/knowledge of how to accomplish this task?
Would it be easier to use .NET or Java to writing the actual scanning app?
Which would be easier to use with MySQL?

wilku

Is c++ an option? (in some .net version)
I've managed to find in no time some examples of both mysql and twain api for c++.
I haven't done this though (c++ with web applications), so I can't tell you if the whole idea is feasible.