I use an older version of OmniPage and it works very well as it is "trainable". However, I don't know of any OCR program that works on handwriting. Kathi > Good Morning, > > An Ancestry.com daily newsletter for the 22nd of July talked of OCR software > and listed the following: > > Adobe Acrobat capture 3 > www.adobe.com > > Scansoft Omnipage 14 (“PC Magazine” Editor's Choice) > www.scansoft.com > > ABBYY Finereader 7, (Mac v5) > www.abbyy.com > > Textbridge 11 (No longer Xerox, it's Scansoft also!) > www.scansoft.com > > Have any of you used one of the above programs? Did they work well? What > others have any of you used that you liked? Did you find one that worked > particularly well with old handwritten documents such as wills or land > records? I am debating even getting this because retyping those old > documents is a real learning exercise. I learn far more and know far better > what is in them after retyping them but there may be times when I would want > to use OCR for one of these old documents. > > Thank you for your input. > > Marie > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.716 / Virus Database: 472 - Release Date: 7/5/2004 > > > ==== GEN-COMP-TIPS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list send a message to GEN-COMP-TIPS-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >