Create Thumbnail with VBScript

[bkcarter333]

I need to use VBScript to process through a directory on a local machine, and look for certain types of files like JPG , or TIF. I then need to be able to generate or obtain the thumbnail image of the file (1st page only), and write that as a new image to another area on my network.

I cannot use ASP nor third party utilities. I know how to do everything except getting the thumbnail image into another file.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Bryan Carter

 

[EBGreen]

I don't think VBScript has native image manipulation abilities, so without using a third party solution I think you are out of luck.

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[bkcarter333]

Hmm. I may have to take a different approach to this. What I want to do is have a process that gathers thumbnails of images on the local machine, and dump them to a server. I guess I could use other methods if I looked at it from the server perspective, but am unfamiliar with ASP, etc. I have done some pretty in depth VBScripting and was looking at running a script as the machine starts, but the more I type and think about it, I could do it all from the server side, and the workstation wouldn't have to do anything except respond to file requests. Any ideas?

Thanks

bkcarter333