Good day to all. I'm at the tail end of moving to a new residence and am tired of=20 moving boxes and boxes of old Electronics and SciFi magazines. I've=20 already gotten rid of those issues that I was able to find scanned=20 copies of but I still have a LOT of magazines that I haven't been=20 able to find electronic versions of. I'm willing to put in the time and effort to scan the magazines but I=20 want to be as efficient as possible. That means cutting the=20 magazines at the spine and batch-feeding the pages into a scanner. I then would *really* like to use OCR to convert the scanned text=20 into searchable electronic text. My problem is that I don't really know where to begin. We've got a=20 couple of decent sheet-feed scanners here at work (they are part of=20 the photo-copier / printers) but I'm looking to purchase something=20 that I can use at home. It seems that everybody and their dog is selling some kind of=20 all-in-one printer / scanner with both single-sheet and multi-sheet=20 scanners but I don't know what's good and what's not. Same with the OCR software - there are lots of packages out there but=20 which ones work best for converting text from scanned images of magazine pa= ges? What I want is a sheet-feed scanner that can scan both sides of each=20 sheet, save it to a file, then feed and scan the next sheet. And so=20 on, as long as I keep feeding it pages. I'm looking for OCR software that can, if possible, replace the=20 scanned text with an electronic copy but still leave the page layout=20 alone, thus preserving whatever images are on the page. All of this to ask a couple of questions: 1) Can anyone suggest any mailing lists or forums where this stuff is=20 discussed at a relatively high (professional) level? 2) Does anyone have suggestions for a scanner and OCR software? I don't mind spending some money on this - I figure that I will get=20 it back in the long run just by not having to store all this old paper. Many thanks! dwayne --=20 Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax www.trinity-electronics.com Custom Electronics Design and Manufacturing --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .