I knew I shouldn't have trusted my memory. I looked up the URL of the
FineReader 3.0b OCR software. (Make sure it is 3.0b)

http://members.home.com/ibtusa/ocr.htm

>>I occasionally have to import data from printed reports. A few years ago I looked into scanning these and using OCR to get them into a text file. It wasn't nearly good enough back then. Has anyone tried something similar to this more recently? Any feedback is most appreciated. >>Thank You, >>Marcus. > > >I've done a lot of work in that area. We experimented with OCR reconition of forms filled out by hand. We were using a Kodak 9000 scanner at 200dpi and controlling the process with OCRFF (OCR For Forms). The scanned images are sent to an Oracle Jukebox using FileNet. We were getting around 90% recognition rates until the lease on the Kodak expired and we started using a Bell & Howell scanner at 200dpi. Our recognition dropped below 50% and we abandoned the experiment until our own Kodak 9000 arrived. > >The OCR engine is really critical. Recently, I tried FineReader 3.0b from a Russian Software house. It is available from bitusa.com. The OCR accuracy is unbelievable! It blows TextBridge98 away. Not only that, It can scan straight into a dbf table, eliminating the need to create an intermediate text file. >The Enterprise edition includes OCX's and DLL's that allow you to add their OCR engine to your software projects.