Hi Simplicio,

please note that is more or less commonly accepted that putting pictures in a general field is a bad idea for a number of reasons. Storing the pictures in seperate files, and only having the name of the picture file in the table, is a much better and more flexible solution.

>Hi Mohammed ,
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>Ive done this is using SQL svr. But i thnk its the same in VFP table. I store photo in Memo General Field. But if what u mean is u want to automate the scanner. Use Twain API.
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>** Inserting
>lcFilePic=GETPICT("BMP")
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>IF !EMPTY(lcFilePic)
> SELECT vstudentsforphoto
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> APPEND GENERAL PHOTO FROM (lcFilePic) CLASS BMP
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> requery("vstudentsforphoto")
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> >ENDIF
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>***
> select vstudentsforphoto
> COPY MEMO photo TO (lcNewFilePath)