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What weird formats would you suggest?

• icegreentea 14y ago
  Scanned paper. Not even joking - there's hilarious amounts of stuff locked away in pdfs that have to be OCR'd.
• DanBC 14y ago
  In 2005 I was getting parts lists printed out on a dot matrix printer and sent via fax machine. We asked for the spreadsheet file. We got a Microsoft Works .WKS file. People in this industry are not always computer literate. (A manger had a parallel port printer. He was unable to connect it to his computer, despite there being only one connector the cable could fit it, and only one way round that connector could fit. Other managers wanted drawing documents on computers rather than paper so they could add changes. Try explaining why you can't scan a paper drawing and turn it into an auto-CAD file (when you don't own autocad) and why a gif file just isn't the same.) They've spent a lot of money on their software. Something like Sage Line 100 (or similar.) So, if you can write something to interface with that list of weird accounting software you're pretty good.