Re: Help to Extract Data -- MIDRANGE-L

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On 05/12/2007, Matt Gross <mgross54@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have an issue with one of our plants and a 3rd party vendor. I hope someone might be able to offer a suggestion. The product is called Spy Vision from Magellan Software, which might now be Open Text.

Data files are stored as ASCII, and contain a reference for images, stored in .TIF format. They want to be able to locate and back up the .Tif images and store them on a seperate drive. Also, is there a way to decode the ASCII data?

Hi Matt

We have OpenText (and had its various predecessors) and pull out both
images and reports as spooled files using their API. We then use
@riadne software's CoolSpools to convert them to PDFs. Everything is
held on optical, which is fine from an archival point of view, but no
good when lots of people want instant access to documents and reports.
I don't do anything with the data as it's stored in their file format
- the API just converts it to something we can work with.

Feel free to contact me off-list if you want more details

Regards, Martin

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