Re: MSDS information

[Dave Shaw <dshaw1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: BORING David <dboring@shl.com>

>Is it possible that once the MSDS sheet is scanned into the PC to run an
OCR
>scan on it (such as using Omni Page)? If so, then it could be uploaded to
>the AS/400 as text and stored and referenced there.
>
>MSDS sheets don't need to be pretty, they just have to exist. If you have
>them in text format and available it's as good as having them in any other
>format.

We wrote an application 4 years ago to do exactly that with MSDS sheets.
Unfortunately, our originals tended to be of such poor quality (bad faxes of
bad photocopies) that even good OCR software of the time couldn't do a
decent job with them.  The users ended up just typing them in, since that
was easier than editing the OCR output.  I would suggest verifying that you
don't have the same problem before putting a lot of effort into such an app.

---
Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from BMW -
Bubba Makes Wheels :)
The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm sufficiently
persuasive...


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