Stroller said: >I think I shall use some of my Copious Free Time to knock up a sweet >Cocoa front-end to gocr & package it as an.app. I'd love to see that! http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/gocr http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ I wonder why Apple didn't think to include OCR in OS X? I suspect that it would be a really neat selling feature. Apple could even re-brand someone's scanner and sell it as an Apple scanner to take advantage of (read: make more money from) this capability. Randy B. Singer Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions) Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html