That's exactly what it is. The company we are probably going with handles all that for you and gives access to a COM object that we can use to update our data with their OCR and bring over the image also. I was surprised though that the success rate is only 85%. I checked and that's about average for this stuff. I have a camera that can find 5 faces in a cluttered picture, but OCR can only hit 85% on printed letters? They maintain a template library as well, so it's not like the majority of the cards coming through are unknown.

>Yeah I was thinking about that this morning - I notice my new one doesn't have the strip on the back either. If you were to scan the card into an image file I suppose there is some type of OCR activex you could get to try to read the data off the image file but it seems like it would be a real pain in the neck to put together unless there was just a handfull of different card layouts.
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>>Not all insurance cards have a magnetic strip on the back. In fact, my experience has shown most don't. My doctor's office has a machine that scans the card into an image file.
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>>>All you're really trying to do is read the magnetic strip on the back right?