Re: Image Database application wanted

["Andrea Brundt" <andrea_w_brundt -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Hi John,

The only applications I know of that would do the trick are "digital asset 
management" solutions like those sold by Documentum, and they're big stinkin 
enterprise monsters (BSEMs -- new acronym!), designed for kabillions of 
images rather than hundreds.

Here's another option --

In an Access table, you can use an OLE datatype to store images. You can 
import the image files (along with metadata like file type, description, 
etc) in to the database table using the Access interface.

It could be tricky to get the images in to an FM document in a way that 
takes advatage of the database. Framescript can connect a Framemaker file to 
an Access database and other ODBC-compliant datasources, but I don't know if 
it can select images stored with the OLE datatypes. I defer to any 
FrameScript experts on that one.

(To see how Framescript can connect to Access and other ODBC compliant 
datasources, see 
http://www.framescript.com/Download_Files/Document_Library/2.0/fsldb.pdf.)

Of course, the cost of bulding this might soon exceed the cost of continuing 
to work with the images as files. But it sure would be fun!

Good luck,
Andrea


John Posada wrote: