Hi Folks: Well, I have checked in socrates 0.00 into cvs. Socrates is an interface for doing optical character recognition. If you wish to play with it you will also need to have sane/libsane-dev installed and the cvs version of gocr. This is just the initial release for people that want to help debug and work on the code. It is usable but does not give very high quality results. Hey! You have to start somewhere. For those interested you can find it with cvs at -d:pserver:anonymous at bumpy.braille.uwo.ca:/usr/src/CVS checkout socrates. The password as usual is 'please'. If anyone needs help getting the required packages installed and running you will have to drop by the reflector. Kirk