Sounds to me like you want to look into using optical character recognition (OCR) software.

>I have a request from a client to be able to scan supporting documents from VFP. Has anyone ever done this that could help lead me in the right direction? Basically, they want a data entry form, and the ability to scan documents directly from the form by pressing on a "Scan" button to scan supporting documents for the data they are entering. Is this as simple as finding an ActiveX component, or does it require API calls to access the scanner Twain driver? Please respond if you have any information regarding this.
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>Thank you in advance,
>Dan Madero