Elaine,   Thanks,  I had heard of this before and had failed to find the OCR in MS but I tried again and did find it.   I'm using MS Windows XP and MS Office Professional 2003 so I'm out of date.   This OCR works good on nice clean documents.  I need this for another project but it was a major failure on the Powell pages.  These are "diry" images from microfilm.  MS OCR got less than one letter per line on the page I tested. Jim Barrett - Timpson, TX Please Help Benjaman Kyle http://home.flash.net/~parino/bkyle.htm Barrett Surname DNA Project http://www.flash.net/~parino/barrett-family-dna-project.htm Powell Surname DNA Project http://www.flash.net/~parino/powell-surname-dna-project.htm --- On Fri, 4/16/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [POWELL-DNA] South Carolina Research To: [email protected] Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 11:48 AM Jim,  Go to this website for an explanation of how you MIGHT have an OCR program on your own computer -- http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Free-OCR-Program Then put "OCR free programs" into Google and several pop up. I do not know any of the people in question. Good luck. Elaine Powell