Could anyone suggest a good document manager that would neatly integrate with my StrataFrame application?  Or, perhaps someone could suggest a good way of handling disparate documents from users (faxes, pdfs, spreadsheets, etc.) that I want to persist with various master records.

Thanks!
Bill

This isn't a quick fix kind of thing.  We wrote an entire document management system that supports scanning, PDFs, Word docs, images, audio, video, etc. and provides annotation markups to the imported media.  This is a large system in and of itself and is something that you just can't "plop" into an application since there are so many pieces.

There are, however, many 3rd party tools that can help you create this part of your application such as PDF rendering/writing/reading components and TWAIN classes to allow you to scan, etc.  We try to use as few 3rd party tools as possible, but if you have the need for scanning there are many 3rd party tools out there: Pegasus (http://www.pegasusimaging.com/), LeadTools (http://www.leadtools.com ), and Accusoft (http://www.accusoft.com/).  We used another company's tool for the TWAIN and PDF rendering (www.atalasoft.com  but will be using one of the aforementioned in the long-term due to some licensing related issues.

Thanks, Trent!

I suppose I could create a document table in SQL Server and store docs in there for each master record.  I do not have a major need for scanning, just pdfs, docs, xlss, jpgs and such.

Bill

Yeah, if you plan to store the documents inside of the database itself, be sure to create a VarBinary(MAX) field.  Also, per our experience, it is also best to create a child table that has nothing but a PK, foreign key to the parent, and the binary data field.  This makes it much easier to bring information back from the server without the media field.