>Hi All:
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>Here's an interesting one:
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>My client prints out sales orders. The sales order number is barcoded. He uses a barcode reader to read each sales order and enter sales order into his system.
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>He has a remote office that can send him scanned PDFs of the sales orders. The reason he needs the scanned copy is because he needs to see the changes that are written on the sales orders.
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>Rather than printing the PDFs out, the user wants the VFP program to loop through the pdf files, invoke a program that OCRs the PDF and retrieves the SO# (from the barcode?) and enters the SO# into the screen, presents him with the sales order PDF so that he can see the changes he needs to make, mimicing the physical reading of the barcode from a printed piece of paper.
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>Is this remotely possible??

As you've presented it, maybe, but I suspect it would be tricky.

It sounds like all you really need is to get the SO#, so you client can pull up an existing (unamended) PDF and compare it to the received scan.

When the remote office PDF is scanned, it has to be given a file name. Might it be possible to have the scanning process include the SO# in the file name?