Laserfiche - retreive documents to MS Access

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Hi All

Does anyone know how to look up a document image in Laserfiche and
display it using visual basic.


Many thanks


Dennis Constantinou

[Brian McKeever]

Post by d***@gmail.com
Hi All
Does anyone know how to look up a document image in Laserfiche and
display it using visual basic.
Many thanks
Dennis Constantinou

Hi Dennis,

We do have a COM toolkit that enables this sort of integration with
other software packages. From Access, you should be able to write a
VBA script to run a Laserfiche search and display the results (within
the Laserfiche client). You should contact your reseller about
getting started with that. In addition, we have a web forum where you
can find users who have Laserfiche integration experience -
https://support.laserfiche.com/ForumsFrames.aspx.

Brian (Laserfiche)

[Milind Joshi]

Post by d***@gmail.com
Hi All
Does anyone know how to look up a document image in Laserfiche and
display it using visual basic.
Many thanks
Dennis Constantinou

Dennis,

Slightly off-topic, please bear with me until you've read my post.

I'm sure there's a way to do this, but, why use MS-Access? Microsoft
offers a free version of their SQL-Server Lite version.

I'd strongly recommend you don't invest any new development with a non-
RDBMS like MS-Access... actually, for images, time and budget
permitting, you should be looking at object databases or at least a
database that supports objects at least as blobs instead of the old
"URL stored in database, pointing to physical image file stored on
disk" which is known to be fraught with many dangers, least of which
is that the URL/file integrity cannot be ensured.

Regards,
Milind

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