Hi Well I know that a number of us hang on to Windows for scanning the printed word. Well I feel like it's Christmas come early as my favourite award winning OCR software Abbyy's Fine Reader is available for Linux. If anyone has already purchased Fine Reader for Linux could you report on it's usability? The website suggests that is usable from the command line. http://www.abbyy.com Gena __________________________________________________________ Using the freedom of Debian GNU Linux