You should be able to scan right to your OCR software with the newer scanners. There is a transparency adapter that can be order separately for this scanner that allows it to scan up 4 x 5 inch film. I do not have it. Tom Chuck Prickett <[email protected]> wrote: I presently volunteer to find and copy newspaper obituaries. I usually scan the newspaper microfilm on a reader-printer, print the image, then scan that printed image using OCR software to a MS Word document which is then attached to an e-mail. On older films I usually just transcribe them due to the poor quality of the film. I would like to be able to use my OCR software to directly scan the microfilm. My question, is it possible to use a photo scanner to read newspaper microfilms? Is there a better way to scan microfilm? Thanks, Chuck Prickett T. Risinger Home Page: http://www.t-risinger.com/ Webmaster for Eastern Nebr. Gun Club: http://www.engcinc.org/ Assistant Coordinator for Knox Co. NEGenWeb Proj.: http://www.rootsweb.com/~neknox/ Webmaster for The Butterfield Family: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~butterfield/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!