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We currently have a ASP app that request users to browse though PDF (10m in average) and enter the info into ASP pages. The problem is that does not matter how much bandwidth you add, it seems not possible to handle the valume...

Is there a way to do this? thx

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mcrmg

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Thanks for the reply.

Actually, we have some contractors who work from home for us, they need to open up PDF files thay they were assigned to and find the infomation then enter them into the ASP app, the reason that PDF is so big is because we would like them to save time to look for the file, so we put all the images into the same file, this is part of the requirements, too.

We thought about moving PDF to those data center, however, those PDFs could change daily, it will take us forever to upload those new PDFs....

>>Stage 3 - Convert the PDF documents into database snippets. In this way your site only needs to deliver the information that is actually wanted. Any images >>can also be loaded onto up line servers within the internet cloud. In this way your primary work-horse servers will not be bogged down delivering images. >>Note the images can also be rotated amongst many different servers.
Do you think this is the way I should go?

thx

inthedark

I don't know enough about what you do to say yes this is what you should do. But.....these PDF files that keep changing what do they contain and how are they generated?

mcrmg

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The files contain some info from the forms that were scanned into PDF....thx

inthedark

If you zip one of the PDF by what % do they shrink, if any?

mcrmg

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I tried 3, only 100k..........

inthedark

So what percentage was that?

mcrmg

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oh, I am sorry, I meant only reduced by 100 k....not much....thx

inthedark

So this is a document storage system? I did a project with document storage and found that using a combo if tiff and a compression library gave very good results. Some scanners will create needlessly large images, by reducing the quality of the image you can save a lot of space. What you could do is create 2 levels of quality. Normal and high quality.

What you can do is register a file type on each of the client systems say an extension of .CTF. You can configure an exe associated with the .CTF file to decompress a download image and then display as a tiff/whatever file. If the user cannot the the normal quality images, the system could download the full quality image, keeping a local copy incase it is reviewed

Compression library info
http://www.ricazip.com/

mcrmg

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I am thinking to have them download the files to their local pc, (I will need to zip it so it will be easy for them to download.)

I saw Adobe has a product called LiveCycle Policy Server, we need some sort of security on those files.....I need to contact them, but another problem is, how can I send the files to them........I would like to schedule them instead of have them logon at once...any ideas? thx