Document Imaging System ...

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011, Ben Duncan wrote:
> Anyone got any Suggestions for a decent LINUX based document imaging system?
> Preferably FREE ?

That depends on what you mean by a document imaging system.

You could probably do a pretty good job using VueScan and any
decent web CMS (e.g. django, plone).  Simply do full-text OCR to
build the indices without worrying about document formatting.

When I was involved with the Archive Retrieval company a decade
ago our product used the ViviData scanning and OCR software on
Caldera Linux along with an extensive perl::Tk system to handle
the scanning and OCR file manipulation with the web side in perl.
The system was good, but the company management wasn't as they
suffered from dot-bombitis, looking for lots of VC cash instead
of building on real sales of the product which were quite
profitable.

Bill
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