Hi Tony, From many years, I have now been using a mainstream OCR namely fine reader version 9 from Abbyy. The only disadvantage with this program is that you cannot scan read at the same time but, other than that, it seems to be a viable alternative to a specialist blindness specific package. Pranav To contact the list owners, please send a message to brian.hartgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or terry.clasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from the list, please send a message to infotech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.