Scanning

Sorry about that previous post to the list. If it went out, it was intended only for Pat. <blush> But having interrupted you, let me ask a question. I have some documents I am going to be scanning. Mostly they will fall into two categories: 1) Things that are mostly schematics. 2) Things with a large text component that I might want to try to OCR. Questions: a) What resolution should I use for these two things? b) What OCR software do you recommend when I am scanning a book that has to be scanned 1 page at a time. I started with the Brainiacs book from Edmund C. Berkeley and every page is a separate tiff file. Now this book has very little text, so I could just tar them or zip them, but if I had one with lots of text, how can I get all these tiff files back into one document when I OCR it without a bunch of cutting ans pasting? TIA, Gil