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

I don't think Document Imaging installs automatically as part of the MS office installation. I'd go back to the CD and make sure you have it installed.

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

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

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