Thank you for the prompt replies. Call me cheap or unable to navigate the political/fiscal landscape, but I don't see myself subscribing to a service. Instead I see putting a wrapper around Tesseract, but alas, the wrappers are written in languages that I don't know. [1] HmmmÖ On the Perl side, I am having problems installing Image::OCR::Tesseract. [1] Wrappers - http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/AddOns -- Eric "Still Cogitating" MorganReceived on Tue Mar 12 2013 - 14:16:58 EDT