Please help gather information for me... thank you Please read the following cas

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Please help gather information for me... thank you

Please read the following case carefully, and perform your research online if necessary. You will be asked to answer 4 or 5 questions regarding that case. IRS has three formats of tax forms. Those formats are: tax forms that are printed in hard copies and hand filled, tax forms that are filled by a PDF Writer and printed, and tax forms that are filled and submitted through an online system. You are a senior IT consultant at ITGuru Inc. You are hired by IRS to combine the three types of tax forms, and input the data on those forms to a centralized database. Keep in mind that the first two formats are in hard copies. You have to figure out a way to convert them to an electronic format. Due to the privacy concern, the data can NOT be transferred out of the United States. Furthermore, you have to find a location (or locations) to host the central database. In order to reduce the Internet traffic, a good strategy is always put the central database geographically near where the IT projects will be developed. Obviously a good place to find high quality IT talents is Silicon Valley where earth quake happens from time to time.

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Hardcopies can be converted into an electronic form by a method called OCR.

Here are the details:

www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/.../Scanning_OCR.pdf‎

Also, to host the database, you need a server.

You may be able to find free SQL Server hosting but there wouldn't be many choices. Most free hosting would use MySQL, because MySQL is free to them while Microsoft charge a license fee for SQL Server. Changing your application to use MySQL would not be much of a challenge though. You'll obviously have to have a MySQL database test against, the setting up of which may be the biggest pain. With regards to your code, you mainly just have to install Connector/Net (free from MySQL) and then change all your SqlClient types to MySqlClient types. You would also need to change the connection string and maybe some of the SQL but the pattern of your code would remain the same.

There are websites like www.singlehop.com which can help you do this :)

Cheers!

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