OpenEMR scanner implementation in web server

OpenEMR Development
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openemruser wrote on Wednesday, January 22, 2014:

Hi,

I am a newbie for using OpenEMR. From my initial understanding I have identified the scanner support provided by OpenEMR. I have a scenario where I have hosted OpenEMR on a web server with a public IP address and I have the scanner connected to my local machine. I need to store the scanned documents from my local scanner to the web server where I have hosted the OpenEMR. Can anyone help me on this ?

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openemrdev wrote on Wednesday, January 22, 2014:

Please refer these threads

https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/4210709b

https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/3fcdc43b

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openemrdev wrote on Wednesday, January 22, 2014:

For answering simple

#1.You have to create a specific folder on your server

#2.And mount all the scanned document to that folder by setting up some thing on your scanner

#2.You can read the same directory from openemr and use the documents

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openemruser wrote on Wednesday, January 22, 2014:

Thanks for the responses from openemrdev.

The referred threads have suggestions on scanner implementations in a local server setup. I am not able to understand the web server based scanner integration. Also the Twain driver supports windows based web servers hosting whereas I am trying to configure for linux server. I would like to know any real time implementation procedure to store the scanned documents from local scanner to the OpenEMR hosted in linux web server.

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openemrdev wrote on Wednesday, January 22, 2014:

May be you could check with your scanner vendor for saving the document to remote server folders

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mdsupport wrote on Wednesday, January 22, 2014:

1 Enable scanner function on server
2 Set a directory on sever for scanned documents
3 Run any folder sync software on local machine which will upload scanned files to server

Or

If you do not need to look inside document to find patient, select patient > documents > upload to attach file to patient record.

This is server application so it depends on browser to provide local resources. Unless you have browser plugin to interface with local scanner you are stuck with files.

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tmccormi wrote on Wednesday, January 22, 2014:

The only good model for this is to share a drive from your local environment to you server environment or to use a scanner with sftp support to write from the scanner directly to thw hosted server.

however you can scan locally and attach the doc directly to the patient record without any of that.

Tony