It is a great project and it already been started and is usualable with gocr now an has been for two years. It is called socrates and can be found at the pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/src/CVS in the module socrates. Now admittedly it isn't very fancy but that is mostly because when I wrote it gocr was a pretty poor ocr engine. It may have gotten better I'm not sure. There is another package or engine which is making improvements pretty quickly which is ocrad and it is a gnu project. You might like to interface socrates with ocrad as well as gocr that would be really useful. Socrates has been publicly discussed on the linux-speakup.org site in projects and on the speakup list for years so this level of ignorence is quite baffling to me. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list