<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 12, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Brian Olesky wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P><FONT size="2">On 11/12/06 10:18 AM, "<A href="mailto:gooddog@interlync.com">gooddog@interlync.com</A>" <<A href="mailto:gooddog@interlync.com">gooddog@interlync.com</A>> wrote:</FONT> </P><P><FONT size="2">> So the question is, to you all with much more experience than myself,</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> what do you think? Is there a way he can do his recipe project on a</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> Mac? If so, what program/programs would he use? I assumed it would be</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> Adobe Acrobat Pro which has a built in OCR component.</FONT> </P><P><FONT size="2">You can simply scan the recipes, and then use the Mac's built in .pdf</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">reader, Preview, to select and extract whatever text you want from the scans</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">and import it into any other program you like, such as Word, and then work</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">with it any way you choose. No extra tools, or expense required. It works</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">extremely well (at least the way I use it).</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>Thanks, Brian. Does the Mac OS have a built in OCR capability, to render a scan searchable? He wants to build a database (again, I'm not sure if this is possible) of these recipes, all searchable. Are we talking about FileMaker Pro or something else or something built into the Mac? With Spotlight, this function is kind of there, no?<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>mark</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>