Re: Saving scanned documents into INFORMIX

David Williams wrote: > > In article <6bs3jl$7s3$1@news3.alpha.net>, pdiazdeleon@infinityhealthcar > e.com writes > >I am in the process of trying to determine which of Informix's databases > >is best suited for storing documents that are to be scanned in for archive > >purposes. I figure some where in the neighborhood of 600 to 1000 pages > >will need to be scanned in per day currently. > > > >Currently we have two full time clerks handling the filing and retrieval of > >there paper documents. Storage of the paper documents has become a > >nightmare. Seems like scanning them into a database is a better way. > > > To sotre images you will need to use Online which can handle them > as blobs. > > With that volume of data I'd go for > > Online Dynamic Server (use to be called Online DSA 7.x). > > Spend a reasonable amount of time calculating the blob page size and beware of 'dirty' pages that will require significant amounts of space. In the past I found 100dpi images A4 ie screen quality with reasonable compression would require about 20K per page, the 300 dpi ie printable copy about 40K. Due the hardware available at the time it was decided to store the image at both resolutions but today I wouldn't bother. -- Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # It said run using Windows 95 Tel: +44 1436 674629 # or better in the manual Fax: +44 1436 678693 # so I used Unix www.wfsoftware.co.uk #