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Bid Request Id: 21980
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Posted by: usLeo (1 ratings)
(Software buyer rating 10)
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Approved on: Jul 17, 2002
3:55:21 PM EDT
Bidding Closes: Jul 25, 2002
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Deadline: 8/7/2002
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100% of work completed and accepted. Coder has been paid.
Max Accepted Bid: Bidding is closed
Project Type: Small Business Project: $100 (USD) +
Bidding Type: Open Auction
Categories: Visual Basic, Visual Basic .Net
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Description:
The maximum amount for this project is $110.

Please don't bid unless you have Microsoft Office XP.

I need a VB.NET class made, or a VBA class module, or a COM component, that can programmatically convert faxed documents (tiff files) to text, on a computer running Microsoft Windows 2000 and Office XP. The faxes to be converted look like standard business letters (no pictures).

The conversion can easily be done manually using Office Document Imaging Tool that comes in Office XP.

(You can probably find a sample Tiff file on your hard drive by searching for *.tif or *.tiff.)

To try this manually on your machine running Office XP, go to your Start button:: Start/Programs/Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft Office Document Imaging. Then use it to open any .tiff file and convert the .tiff to a Word document.

I need to do the same thing, but programmatically, and preferably convert to .txt rather than .doc.

In VB.NET, here is how I&'d like to consume your class after it&'s built:
.......
Dim oTiff2Txt as New clsTiff2Txt()
Dim fSuccess as Boolean
'SET TWO PROPERTIES
oTiff2Txt.TiffFileName = “c:/Faxes/1234.tif”
oTiff2Txt.TxtFileName = “c:/ConvertedFaxes/1234.txt”
'PERFORM THE CONVERSION
fSuccess = oTiff2Txt.Convert
'FINISH UP
oTiff2Txt = Nothing
If Not fSuccess Then
ShowMessage(“Problem converting.”)
End If
.......

SOME POSSIBLE CLUES?:
After you're in the Office Document Imaging app, go to the Help menu (or F1), and look under Getting Started/Command Line Options (IMPORTANT). There are some clues in the command lines listed there I think, for example:
COMMAND LINE: "mspview -f [path:filename.tif]"
RESULT: "Starts Office Document Imaging, performs OCR on the specified file, and then saves the file with the new OCR text."

NOTE: Here are some of the files that Office XP Document Imaging uses. Microsoft licensed the OCR stuff from ScanSoft, Inc. These are already on your machine if you have Office XP:
- mspview.exe
- xfile.psp
- ximage3.dll
- xOCR3.dll
- xPage3b.dll
- mspvwctl.ocx
and others in that directory.

Deliverables:
Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.

Complete copyrights to all work purchased.


Platform:
Office XP
VB.NET

Must be 100% finished and received by buyer on:
Aug 7, 2002 EDT
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Name   Bid Amount 
 
Date   Coder Rating  
SmartCoders
(34 ratings)
in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
United States
Bid id: 243,232
 
$100 (USD) Jul 18, 2002
12:51:11 PM EDT
 8.73
(Superb)
   
Yes, we can do it.

This is how:

Suppose you want to conver a file called File1.tif, the routine will:

1) Copy the file to a temporal directory.

2) Execute thie command:
mpsview -f temp\File1.tif
This will save the .tif file with the text recognized.

3) Open the file and access the text section (in order to do this we created a small algorithm based on the TIFF6.0 specification)

4) Delete the temporal file

5) Save the text file.

_We will add the option to not execute steps 1 and 4, so the source file will be converted. This may be useful if you want to perform a text search in your tiff documents.

This can be implemented as a COM component, standard .DLL or just you'll be able to insert the code in your application.
We can do it at your option in VBasic 6.0 or C language.

Out bid is the minimum allowed by your post.

Regards,
 
 
 
 
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