[AccessD] Access error

Could you take any more work on though?

That is the problem with a one-man band...nicht wahr?

Max



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: 30 June 2009 20:39
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access error

LOL, it is always nice to increase the customer base.  As a sole proprietor,
and definitely NOT a 
salesman, I find it difficult to sell my services.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Max Wanadoo wrote:
> That sounds really cool and it goes to show that you never, ever know
where
> things will pop up.
> Today, at the charity, we had an email referring to an application we sent
> in in 2007 and asking us to make a bid for money.
> 
> Strange world.  I am happy for you - genuinely.
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: 30 June 2009 20:12
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access error
> 
> Max,
> 
> When I lived up in Connecticut I used to go to the local Access user's
group
> which was hosted at 
> Microsoft's suite.  One day I gave a short and sweet lecture about classes
> and frameworks.  There 
> was a gentleman there who heard the lecture and apparently wrote my name
> down because three years 
> later I get a call from him.  His business is booming and he no longer has
> time to do the database 
> stuff.
> 
> Not exactly sales, and yet kind of sales, yea.
> 
> The client is doing pretty cool stuff.  He gets Medicaid drug invoices,
uses
> Omnipage and OCR to rip 
> the stuff out into CSV files, then he imports those csv files into an
access
> database and does 
> analysis for his clients.  As you might imagine the invoices are all over
> the map in terms of 
> format.  My job is to write code to extract this field from this line and
> another field from another 
> line and these 8 fields from the next N lines, and then recognize page
> breaks etc. and write them 
> into a table in a consistent format.
> 
> So far we have identified 5 different formats that I have written
extraction
> code for, and there 
> others that he has stumbled across as he works.  I write a class for each
> format, each class has 
> logic to find the right field(s) in the right line(s) to get the data out,
> and then write the data 
> back to a standard table.  Each class looks very similar to every other
such
> class except that that 
> search logic is slightly different, and the "This source field goes in
this
> destination field" is 
> slightly different.
> 
> And then of course there is data correction to fix OCR errors.  Ones get
> turned into L and I, zero 
> gets turned into o and O etc.  I find and fix these errors in the code as
I
> move the data.
> 
> Fun stuff.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> Max Wanadoo wrote:
>> Aha!  So you have been doing SALES.
>>
>> Well done - picking them up in this economic climate is pretty good.  I
> hope
>> it means that things are getting back to normality.
>>
>> Max
> 
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