Hi, I'm running MS Office 2007 but the CREATEOBJECT() line says object not found. Must I install it from CD perhaps?

>You need at least Microsoft Office 2003. Document imaging had no available object model prior to that.
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>>Peter, pmfji, but where do you get the MS Document Imaging controls? i.e.'MODI.Document'
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>>>THANKS ALOT!!
>>>
>>>Peter
>>>>Here is an example using Microsoft Document Imaging
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>>>>

Local miDoc,miLayout,lcStr
>>>>lcStr=''
>>>>CREATE CURSOR mydocument (mydococr m)
>>>>miDoc = Createobject('MODI.Document')
>>>>miDoc.Create( "C:\untitled.tif")
>>>>miDoc.Images(0).OCR
>>>>miLayout = miDoc.Images(0).Layout
>>>>strLayoutInfo ="Language: " + Transform(miLayout.Language )+Chr(13)+Chr(10)
>>>>strLayoutInfo=strLayoutInfo+"Number of characters: " + Transform(miLayout.NumChars)+Chr(13)+Chr(10)
>>>>strLayoutInfo=strLayoutInfo+"Number of fonts: "+ Transform(miLayout.NumFonts )+Chr(13)+Chr(10)
>>>>strLayoutInfo=strLayoutInfo+"Number of words: " + Transform(miLayout.NumWords)+Chr(13)+Chr(10)+Chr(13)+Chr(10)
>>>>strLayoutinfo = strLayoutinfo+miLayout.text
>>>>INSERT INTO mydocument (mydococr) VALUES (strLayoutinfo)
>>>>MODIFY MEMO mydocument.mydococr

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>>>>>VFP SP2
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>>>>>I need to ocr EXISTING .TIF FILES.
>>>>>Has anyone done this? Is there some free stuff which can be called from VFP?
>>>>>
>>>>>Peter