Hi Wayne: obnoxious fastness is exactly what we're looking for and rather than slog through using IE as the front end I was thinking of a VPF interface. We don't want it on the web; can't use it for security reasons in any case. -- L

>A VFP .DLL would be great (and obnoxiously fast) for this... then you could make whatever front-end you want. Store the images in a directory and point to them in your database. All you would have to do is return to path to the file(s).
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>As far as front-end, I would use a web based front-end because of the ease of the application on different platforms - you could put it on the web, include it in an existing app, or have it stand alone. But the .DLL is where the power lies... so you could use anything you like.