Michael Beccaria wrote: > Andrew, > If you have MS Office, Microsoft has an OCR engine built in. I used it > to OCR some college yearbooks at MPOW. It's not ABBYY but it works > pretty well! It's scriptable using VBScript or your MS language of > choice. > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa167607(office.11).aspx > Notice the "OCR" method in the document. Could someone comment on the efficacy of this OCR on languages with non-latin characters? cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository