Thanks for the reply, we have already done that part.

The thing is that he wants to buy a digital or web cam and then integrate it to our id system to capture the picture of the student from the form without editing the picture using a 3rd party program.

so for the time being we scan the picture, edit it in corel, after editing we copy it to the GEN field of the table then prints the ID's, I know its the wrong way but I haven't explore the capabilities of vfp.

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