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Posted by Steve on 09/24/07 02:33
"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> 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).
i know how smtp on windows fits into the scheme of things, there's no need
to be that technical here with me about it...plus, i never said it was ==
iis.
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