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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:59:09 +0000 Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There simply isn't time to send company data to and from a central > > server with a national company when each of 800 branches is making > > 3,000 transactions a day. Broadband simply cannot cope. > 3000 transactions a day and broadband cant cope?- you seem to have No, 3,000 x 800 = 2,400,000 AFAICT none of the branches are on anything more than 512kb broadband. But that's a side issue - the transactions cannot be done in a distributed method, there just sufficient speed. That's why the NHS central spine is taking so long. These are not trivial problems that we can hope to resolve on this list. > You say you receive PDF documents and have to convert then by hand? I receive PDF and have to read them to enter data by hand. I create my own data (that needs to correspond to the PDF but not be created from it) using the Palm, pilot-qof and XML/XSL. > Well store the PDF for your records. I do - untouched. > Try using one of the many > pdf2txt (choose format here) that are around to extract the data you > need and use that for processing. It will require a lot more than that but I am working on it via the cashutil project. > If its in an auditable form then > it should be a piece of cake. It won't be in auditable form after conversion. >You can then, if you must generate pdf I don't generate PDF, I receive PDF. In the absence of any standard format, PDF is all I can use. > It doesn't even need to be stored as a PDF - you just have to be able > to generate the same document on demand. Not true - I need to store the original, untouched. Trust me, there is no off-pat solution here. I've been working on a method for over two years. Parsing the PDF doesn't get me any closer to the necessary data entry, yet. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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