Taking the Mystery Out of Document Imaging

Abstract

This past year Metropolitan State College of Denver implemented a Windows based archival document imaging system for the Financial Aid Office. The environment consists of 28 image viewing stations with 17" monitors, 3 scanners, and 1 HP LaserJet printer. The system is designed to manage an unlimited number of student documents, and has an average image retrieval time of under 4 seconds to the workstation. This application was developed over a 6 month period by a team of 4 individuals, using PowerSoft's PowerBuilder client/server development tool, in conjunction with Microsoft SQL Server. Developing the system internally provided a system that is closely integrated into the existing Banyon Vines network, and resulted in a cost savings of $140,000, as compared to the proposed vendor solution. This track presentation addresses many of the issues MSCD faced in making the decision to build the system as opposed to purchasing a package. In particular, issues relating to the use of new Windows based imaging technologies and application development tools will be presented. Paper presented at CAUSE94, the full proceedings of which are available through this Library as PUB1094.