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Scan the document

Former Member — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:16:24 GMT

Hi Experts,

Is it possible to scan the document placed in the scanner through ABAP code? If yes then please let me know how.

PS: For example there is a button on the screen. On pressing that button, the scanner should start scanning the paper placed inside the scanner.

Regards,

Rahul MB

Re: Scan the document

Jelena_Perfiljeva — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:52:16 GMT

Wow, this should go into Top 10 Strangest ABAP Questions on SCN.

Not sure what purpose this could possibly serve (what would you do with a scanned document and why does this need to be triggered from SAP?), but I'm guessing you could use an external command (SM69) to call some kind of a script...

Not the same but similar questions on SCN:

https://scn.sap.com/thread/1087474

http://scn.sap.com/thread/307273

Re: Scan the document

Former Member — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:09:41 GMT

Hi Jelena,

The end user requirements are always strange . The actual customer requirement was that while posting an invoice in SAP they should able to attach the soft copy of the invoice along with it. When we provided the solution for that, then the customer came up with another requirement. They want to attach the scanned copy of the invoice document placed inside the scanner directly from MIRO i.e., actually on the press of a button. Do you have any suggestions for the possible solution?

Regards,

Rahul MB

Re: Scan the document

Jelena_Perfiljeva — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:16:33 GMT

Yes, the users want the darndest things. Well, if this was feasible in SAP then companies like Easysoft would probably be out of business...

In MIRO this is very likely not going to happen. I'm guessing your solution was to use GOS to add an attachment. That's just as good as it gets.

If there is such large volume of scanned invoices that it's too much of a hastle to save a document before attaching it to SAP (takes 5 seconds tops) then they might want to invest in a third party solution or do it the other way around. Instead of trying to break MIRO, create a custom desktop application that would scan an invoice and call MIRO.