>I have a number of customers running my sales order system. They all have a 2 common problems which I have not been able to come up with a computerized solution for, so I am throwing this out for you to let me know if you have any suggestions.
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>Problem 1 - Through the night, the customers of my customer phone and leave orders on an answering machine. My customer's staff come in early in the morning and listed to the messages and key in the orders.

Using MS Speech SDK to create COM
Or better make a website with opportunity all customers of your customers to input the data, after that e-mail this data to customer mailbox and import data using VFP MAPI classes in your database

>Problem 2 - My customer provides a price list to all his customers, with a space on it for them to write in how many they want. So every day, they get several faxes with the items and quantity required.

Use OCR like www.finereader.com or written above

>For both of these problems, I want to come up with a way for the orders to be entered in the system more efficiently. The general consensus is that the customers doing the actual ordering are not interested in using the web, or some other computerized way of ordering. The customers of mine, who are doing the selling have anywhere from 1 to 10 salespeople, so the solution has to fit their budget (i.e. we are not talking about huge companies here).

If you like we can discuss outsourcing of the project

>Any thoughts would be appreciated.