Subject Re: [Firebird-general] Files or FDB to store images?
Author Helen Borrie
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-- Mean Cruel Moderator
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At 10:09 PM 27/10/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My employer is considering digitizing a bunch of existing
>records contained on index cards. OCR is not an option as
>the cards are in various formats and contain handwritten
>notes. One of the steps required is scanning all the index
>cards and then... this is where I am not sure what to do.
>
>Should I store resulting images (after they are scanned) as
>jpeg files linked to relevant database entries, or would it
>be better to store the images inside a firebird database as
>records.
>
>These are some of the technical aspects of the project: