Hi Norma & Cathy, I'm a proud owner of OmniPage Professional but please bear in mind that any OCR is only good as the quality of the material that you are scanning. If you are scanning something that was written from a typewriter or from an old handset written book, it's going to have a difficult time reading everything well. Nevertheless,the OCR is a valuable tool but please do consult your manual to learn the tricks of trade. It has a spell checker which I use but once I'm finished I paste everything into my word processor to check it once again. Good luck Melville >In a message dated 07/05/2000 3:02:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >CKubly9527@aol.com writes: > >> Scanning in? Don't I wish! The current OCR software makes so many errors >> it's just as fast to type them all in as it is to go back and correct all >> the errors. I wish it were as easy as scanning! I can't wait until the >OCR... > >Hi Cathy: May I please ask what OCR program you are using? I have been >told that OmniPage Professional is very accurate. Since I don't have a >scanner (YET!!) I am really interested in this subject. I do alot of >Wisconsin research, too, and thank you for your wonderful efforts in the >researcher's behalf. > >Norma