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Document and Image Viewing

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Date: 2008-01-01

Description = wrote a Rails application to search, index, and display stored documents in Sungard Bi-Tech' s IFAS (Integrated Financial Accounting System)

(2007) Sungard Bi=Tech's Document Viewer was upgraded and as a consequence, we lost the ability to view and search for document images online. Instead, users were required to install a viewer client on their desktop. The project I embarked upon was to re-enable the very critical functionality of document searching on the web.

  Additionally, Solano County made extensive use of document imaging in a custom fashion.  Rather than assigning an
  system identifier to every document scanned, documents already had a unique, incremented Claim Number on each claim.
  And batches of 300-500 were scanned in at a time.  When they were uploaded, a beginning and ending claim number
  was assigned to the file, and each claim was indexed to the overall file, enabling a user to search directly for a claim
  within a larger file. Client = Solano County Technologies = .NET, XML, BiTech IFAS, Informix, ruby, rails, zip, pdf Services = 

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