Hi,
I've been a programmer for a long time but have done very little web development. Last time I touched dreamweaver has to be 10 years ago. A company I'm working with is developing a web front end for their system. In their existing system, they are able to scan a document by pressing a button in the application. The button push scans the document and open Acrobat Pro. When the user saves the PDF, they are able to get the path where the user saved the file as well as the file name and then they store that information in the DB of previously mentioned system. From the application they are hitting a TWAIN driver to invoke the scanning (if I understood correctly). The scanner I saw this done with is an EPSON GT-S50 and I believe they are programmatically reading the registry to get the last 15 files that were saved and determining the path and file name from there.
Since they are now developing a web front end over the existing business logic, there are some things they have asked me to figure out. The first of which is how to duplicate what I mentioned above in a web front end. That being said, here's what I need to do:
- Add a button labeled "Scan" to a web page with Dreamweaver that will invoke the scan process of the EPSON Scanner.
- Have that scanned document open in Acrobat.
- On save of the document in Acrobat, I need to get the path and file.
- Add a button to view the file labeled "View".
- On select of the "View button", I need to display the PDF on the same web page.
I've done a bunch of reading so far and I haven't quite found what I need. If you can help point me in the right direction or have done something similar or even if you just want to offer moral support (haha) please let me know. I'll respond as quickly as possible to additional questions, I need to move on this...
Thanks,
Rob