Hello Pamela, Have you ever tried scanning a microfische or a print of a microfische? This could save a huge amount of time and effort in genealogical research if it is possible. Cheers Joe de la Poer Power Pamela Wagoner wrote: > We have OCR scanning or optical character recognition software at work. Since > we have Macintoshes in our dept. the program we use is Omnipage Pro. When you > scan a document through the OCR program the text is picked out and is recognized > as letters or characters. Sometimes the computer gets a little confused about > some letters such m's or n's, but its pretty good. A whole lot easier than > typing! > > Pam > Oregon > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > Are you having trouble unsubscribing to the list? You can subscribe and unsubscribe to the lists we own from our web page at: > http://www.genrecords.com