[Barcode4j-users] Barcode, OCR and Fax

[Manuel M. <mm...@ar...>]

Sorry, this is a bit of an off-topic question as I am more after adivce than
technical support for Barcode4j.

We are currently generating Fax coversheets using FOP which our customers
are using to fax back documents required for the services we provide to
them. Any way, the suggestion was made to put a barcode on the coversheet
and put the returned fax through OCR and to use the result to associate the
returned fax pages with the customer order in the database. Currently this
is done manually through an application which allows the operator to view
the fax pages on the screen and associate them with the customers order.

Q1: Does that sound feasible?

Q2: Which type of barcode would be best suited to that as fax resolution is
not very good (Note: I don't know anything about barcodes)?

Q3: Any recommendations for OCR software which could do barcode decoding
(must run under Linux) on fax files?

Thanks

Manuel