> My family Lu has a long history. So the books of family are > accumulating. Unfortunately, they are all in old form of printing. > I am trying to digitialise them. But I cannot type one by one. I > need a software. Can anybody help. I am living in Beijing, China. > > dclu@yeah.net It sounds as though you are looking for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. When used, you scan the paper document with a scanner and then the OCR software reads the scanned image and converts the characters into digital form. If you use the Google search engine at: http://www.google.com/ and give it some keywords such as: OCR optical recognition you will find quite a few websites where you can read about what is currently available. It quite often requires quite a bit of manual editing after conversion. One problem I am wondering about is if the printing uses a Chinese graphical character set. Does it? That may be a difficult problem for OCR. I'll leave it at that right now just to get the discussion going. Bob Robert Heiling <robheil@attbi.com>