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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/24/07 01:11

Steve wrote:
> "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.
>
>

I don't know - I don't use Windows SMTP (which is not the same as IIS, BTW).

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