[Sussex] Additional to "John's stupid question"

[John D.]

On Monday 13 Oct 2003 8:46 am, Steve Dobson wrote:
> Hi John
>
> On 13 October 2003 at 08:41 John D. wrote:
> > It's really a case of identifying the necessary tools for the
> > job, then learning how to use them - after all I have a copy
> > of office 2k, but would really prefer to avoid proprietary app's.
>
> Consider how Clare will want to use the system.  If she works in
> "Windows Land" then having the database on one of your Linux partitions
> is not going to make it available.
>
> > I figure that if I can scan the paperwork in albeit actual magazine
> > articles or line drawing work sheet's, then I can always do any ocr
> > or image editing later, as and when Clare needs a specific doc/image.

Ha, fair comment Steve,

I suppose it's time for some IT training, with a little "inter-relationship" 
politics :)

Actually, due to my armed forces based typing skills, I tend to do most of the 
computer based work for her anyway - so while the idea of having her 
paperwork stored digitally could/would be of use to her, to get the best out 
of it, she would have to learn how to use it - It's also about me learning to 
do a few of the more in depth "computer type things" that I've heard so much 
about, but don't really understand.


> But if all you have is a set of scanned images how are you going to
> know that there is an article on digital file?
>

I think that all the identifcation I need would be to use a "name" and for 
magazine articles, a publication identifier. The exact format ? I'll have to 
work out the best way of identiying mag articles when I know/understand what 
tools are best to use. Though I would have thought the use of keywords for 
searching should work - as per Mark's "step 1, option 2" suggestion ?

regards

John D.