On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 20:27 -0500, Edward Terry wrote: > Did you try handwritten material? How about magazine articles with > columns, pictures, and different fonts? I don't have Windows, but I'm > willing to buy proprietary Linux software if I'm confident that it works. I'm not sure handwritten material would work with most OCR: my impression is that OCR works only for printed works but I'm not certain. Unfortunately, I don't know of any commercial Linux applications but there may well be some out there. You might find something by searching Freshmeat and Sourceforge. Kind regards... -- Ricardo Gladwell President, Free Roleplaying Community http://www.freeroleplay.org/ president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx