Processing speed for Images

Hi,
Background:
We user scanners to scan images of the documents and store it on our NT server. The documents are later shown to the user in data-entry screens for capturing the required information. We make use of  *read_image_file* to populate the image item.  This works successfully without any errors. In the data entry screen, User captures information from one image and presses commit (f10). The next image is populated automatically and user continues with the data capture.

Issue:
The response time. It takes approximately upto 4-5 seconds to show an image. Our data-entry operators are very fast and they want the image population time to be brought down.  We tried this with Java and the response time was very fast, as we were storing the images in memory, in advance.   Is it possible to do the same in form builder itself, or any other feature that can improve the processing speed of images in forms?

Image type:
JPG files sized around 50-80k. Stored on the network file server.

rgds
amar
http://amzone.netfirms.com Received on Mon Jan 14 2002 - 04:10:19 CST