Perhaps this will help

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/13/how-to-open-mdi-microsoft-document-imaging-format-with-office-2007/

http://blog.opsan.com/archive/2007/02/17/350624.aspx

>Hi Mike
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>Thanks! As always you are right on the money!
>It works great - on XP
>I does not work for me on my brand new Dell Precision M90 with Vista Ultimate and 4GB of memory!!
>
>it creates the object alright but when assigning the image it give a ole error. It seems to think the tif file is corrupted
>The same files work fine on the inspiron 1705 with XP -sp2
>
>Any ideas?
>
>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