Without knowing what platform you're on, what scanner and OCR program you're using, there's not too much I can advise you with relative assurance. I've not yet found ANY OCR program that approaches 100 percent reliability. My best luck has been with OmniPage (I'm on a Mac and was using an HP IIcx scanner under System 9 at the time). One avenue you might explore is Adobe's Acrobat -- the full version, not just the free Reader. This has the benefit of retaining the scanned image for display, with full, searchable text as a sort of sub-layer. The text can be exported... and you have the original image to cross-check anything that looks suspiciously erroneous. On Jan 27, 2004, at 8:01 AM, [email protected] wrote: > So can you help us help ourselves? Are you an expert on OCR or > scanning in stuff? Do you have or know of an OCR that will work better > than mine? Are you an expert typist and want to donate your time to > type this stuff and make it available to all? What can you do? > > Charles Steve Miller Someplace near the crossroads of America --- "What is history after all? History is facts which become legend in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end." --Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), 1957