#CD-ROM Production
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Katherine,
Are there any names of retreival software that are recommended over others? I
described what I am doing in the previous message.
Thanks,
Pat.
Pat,
There are number of retrieval packages available, and your description was
rather open-ended. Without more information it would be difficult to suggest
what might work for you. Here are some questions to help narrow the field:
What platform (computer) do you intend your program to run on?
Do you want to use a GUI? Which one?
Do you want a multimedia presentation?
Do you want to use a hypertext function?
What other capabilities do you want (full-text index, scrolling fields, etc.)?
Do you object to paying a royalty for runtime copies of the retrieval engine?
What is your general budget for the development system?
What is your budget for scanning/OCR? Do you plan to do that yourself or hire
a service?
That should do for starters. <g>
Kathy <<– The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc.
Kathy,
Let me see if I can narrow it down for you:
The platform I will use is MS-DOS on all stand alone systems, and either MS-DOS
or UNIX for the networked systems.
No GUI.
No multimedia.
Probably will use hypertext.
Other capabilities: full text search, and the rest I am still looking into with
potential end-users.
Royalties: depend on the price and quality of the DB engine, and the amount of
the royalty.
My budget is not yet set, since this project is still in its infancy. I am
working on my bus plan now, however, and since I have not seen many estimates
yet, I am not certain of my budgets.
Thanks,
Pat.