Hi Larry, It's possible you already own one that may fit your needs. MS Office 2003 comes with "office document imaging" which handles both scanning and ocr'ing. It can be found under the office menu choice, under it's office tools menu choice. It does a decent job, but has none of the advanced or specialized features Dean mentioned (except that I think it can import a pdf for ocr'ing). Office 2002 has a more limited version of document imaging, and I don't think it has the ocr capability. hth, Chip ------------------------------ Chip Orange Database Administrator Florida Public Service Commission Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (850) 413-6314 (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) ________________________________ From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Stansifer Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:31 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: OCR Software Hi folks, I am considering some kind of an OCR package and wondered which one worked best with JFW 8.latest, Windows XP-Pro and Office XP. TNX Larry