Hello all, Jim is right, the best way to make these files digitally accessible would be as Jim said to use Adobe Acrobat. Using this each page would be scanned and an exact copy would be the result. These could then be uploaded to a webserver or placed on a cd-rom. In either case the originals would then be safe from the fate that befalls repeated handling of these precious old documents. Any of the type-written pages in this collection could then have OCR (Optical Character Recognition) applied to them to make them searchable. Handwritten documents would not be good candidates for OCR since there is no uniformity to the penmanship. OCR for handwriting does exist but produces results that are so bad that while correcting all of the errors, you might as well have typed it to start with. While I have seen the book sitting on the shelf on my visits to the museum, I have never actually looked at them, so I have no clue if they are typed or handwritten. One of the drawbacks of squeezing research into a busy vacation schedule of visiting relatives and relaxing. Regards, Chuck Bush Owner and Webmaster http://www.bushbooks.com Historical and Genealogical Books on CD-ROM Custom CD and DVD publishing services available.