At 01:15 AM 12/30/98 -0800, The Sam Ismail wrote: I've used Caere OmniPage in the past, and it seemed pretty good, but I wasn't trying to scan old computer docs, just nice typewriter pages. I'm very interested in the collective wisdom about this, so of course it seems quite on-topic to me. I'd like to scan the ASR-33 Teletype manuals, which contain plenty of odd hand-set type, drawings, off-size pages, schematics, etc. I'd also like to restore the UCSD Pascal manuals, of which I've heard the only electronic copies at UCSD were lost a long time ago. Given these problems of line art and odd character sets, I suspect the most useful first step would be to scan all docs at a given resolution, then store them as bitmaps in a format most easily loaded into any present or future OCR / PDF-ish program. Someone mentioned the multi-page TIFF format. As for which resolution, I think 300 DPI might be too coarse. I like Doug's idea of shooting for HTML. I recall the multi-res buttons on IBM's patent server, which allows you an easy way to browse thumbnails, then zoom in on the desired page at various resolutions. Is there an off-the-shelf tool for doing this? - John