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Posted by Steve on 09/24/07 00:14
"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:coadnXC1Ps1Ux2vbnZ2dnUVZ_t7inZ2d@comcast.com...
> Shelly wrote:
>> "Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message
>> news:D7nJi.124$ua4.45@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net...
>>> "Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
>>> news:13fb0rcom0qur6e@corp.supernews.com...
>>>> Here is a situation that I have to think out for a potential customer.
>>>> Currently he receives about 150 emails a day with pdf attachments for
>>>> orders. The format of the pdfs are all the same. Now he has to:
>>>>
>>>> 1 - look at his email
>>>> 2 - open the pdf
>>>> 3 - manually take the data from the pdf and enter it into an order
>>>> processing mode and a database.
>>>>
>>>> This is taking so much of his time that he is considering hiring
>>>> someone to do it.
>>>>
>>>> What I would like to be able to present him with is the following:
>>>>
>>>> 1 - Have all those emails go to a specified folder in his email
>>>> 2 - Without opening the email, upload the attachment to a server
>>>> 3 - Have an application that extracts the information from the pdf and
>>>> then does what it has to do.
>>>> 4 - Move the email to a second email folder (processed)
>>>>
>>>> I would like to have all this initiated with either a cron type job or
>>>> via a "Go" button.
>>>>
>>>> Short of this ideal, I would have him look at an email in his reader
>>>> and save the attachments to a directory. The "Go" button would upload
>>>> button would then do the rest.
>>>>
>>>> There are also other compromises I can and probably will have to make.
>>>> I posted the ideal.
>>>> The main point is to cut the hyman time down considerably.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>> Most of that stuff sounds pretty simple - but the PDF parsing might be
>>> your deal-breaker.
>>> You'll have to be a real PDF guru to do that.
>>> Have you explored the PDF features in PHP?
>>
>> Actually, that's probably the easy part. There are inexpensive packages
>> out there to that. What I would need is a command line application. The
>> other stuff looks like the hard stuff to me.
>>
>> Shelly
>
> Naw, even on a Unix server the email is easy. If it is unix, just get the
> admin to pipe a copy of the email to your script.
and depending on what language you're comfortable, i've got vb (classic and
..net) and c++ sample code to tie into IIS smtp. however, i'd really consider
jerry's earlier suggestion of piping to a script if, as he suggested, iis
will allow for it...i just have never done it that way.
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