Any Suggetions or Hints

[newmember]

hi all,

please suggest me something. i m very much confused. our company has bought a scanner. there is one software to scan the image and store the data in csv format. but the software doesnt fulfill our all needs. so company told me to try to develop software for that. and the problem is i dont know anything how to do that.

and i m in verymuch need of any help any hints or suggetion regarding this.

i dont mean that somebody should explain me the entire task, but atleast i m expecting any word, or hint which i can refer to, or the way where i should start from , the scanner is connected to usb port.

i want to use c# with dot net IDE. is it possible to develop such a software using this (sorry Bill)
if yes then what should i start study to. please suggest me any words hits which i can study to.

thanks

[Hack]

Before any of us can give you an answer to this question, you need to supply some more details.

What is it that the software you have doesn't do?

What is it that your company wants your program to do? And how?

[newmember]

it is a software which get the data from scanned image . but it can provide only the data which is printed on the image. but there are more information which we have to enter with that data, e.g. serial no etc. i have build a software which show the image and allow user to enter serial no. and all necessary info. but comp. dont want this. they want me to build a software which can do what the existing software do and add some more functionality to the software,


actually i want to build a software which will interact with a device connected to a usb port . and i want to know that,

what should i start with inorder to build a software which interact with any device
how the software talk with a device, (using driver and all.)

what should i refer ( win api, any words, functions ,command related to this , or ??? )

i can tell my superior that it is not possible and the matter will close but i myself want to know how to build a software which interact with any device attached to any port of a computer.
i have never build or even seen the source code of such a software.

[Hack]

Here is some information you might find interesting. I'll see what else I can find.

[wossname]

Do you mean OCR? Reading text data form an image is EXTREMELY difficult if not impossible for individul coders to achieve.

Its not worth the effort to do that on your own. It would be much more cost effective for your company to buy in some proper OCR tools like Abbyy FineReader for example. (which also has an SDK that you can buy which lets you integrate an OCR engine in to your apps, but the SDK is bit crap to be honest, the full product is excellent)

[DeadEyes]

As I see it the most effective thing to do is create a program which calls the existing ocr app then your program reads it csv output, changes it as required and placed it somewhere else. Assuming you can run the ocr app silently no one will be any the wiser.
Point out to your boss that this way will save everyone time and money.

[Shaggy Hiker]

This thread is 15 years old. Most of those people have long since left, and one has come back under a slightly different name. It's unlikely that they will see your post. A new thread would probably be better.