I am a retired Programmer that primarily codes for RM/Cobol. I have recently been contacted by one of the companies I worked for before I retired. They use programs written in RM/Cobol (6.09.04) on an SCO UNIX System (3.2v5.0.7). They wish to scan invoices into the system using a multipage scanner for future display and/or printing. What I envisioned was to have a COBOL program scan one page from the multipage bin and save it to a name generated by the program. The scanned image would then use OCR to convert the image into a TEXT file. The program could then scan the TEXT file and save pertinent information (such as invoice no., customer no.). My question is, are there programs available that can either interface with RM/Cobol or can be controlled from a call to "SYSTEM" for scanning and converting. I would also need a program that would be able to display the image and/or print the image from a call to "SYSTEM".
Thank you in advance.