I am preparing to integrate a medium speed scanner with Navision Financials to scan and save about 400 paper documents a day. The documents must be associated with specific Posted Invoices. Has anyone done this? I am familiar with Matriks as a possible partial solution. I’m not sure I need the capabilities of Matriks, but in any case, there is the challenge of how to scan a document, ID it, and hand it off from the scanning software to Navision. I have a general design roughed out, but know there’s folks here smarter than I am. Thanks in advance for any advice.
You can take a look at HP’s digital Sender 9100C. This one has an RJ45 interface and ca save files directly as pdf or tiff with a filename that You enter on the control panel of the machine. The files are sent to a server over TCP/IP from where You can import them to Navision. If You save the files with an ID that exists in Navision it’s easy to import the pdf as a blob in a table.
Thanks for the feedback. I studied the HP software a little bit. My design scenario is to automatically scan in a batch of documents(from a feeder), ID each document (probably using a bar code on the document), then feed the documents to Navision. I need to be able to process the daily batch of 400+ documents in less than two hours of operator time (that’s what it takes now to manually file them and retreive the ones needed for customer service). I don’t care if the connection between the scanning software and Navision is real time or batch. I forgot to mention that famous old limitation - the cost should be modest. Since some of the documents are multipage, I assume I will need to allow for multiple documents for a single order invoice. Addressing this is a plus for Matriks. I’ve also thought that it might work just as well for the document graphic files to be stored outside Navision as within, but am not fixated on either approach.