Ken writes:
 >>That all said. My latest upgrade to OnmiPage 16 claims that you can take
photographs with your camera and have the OCR software transcribe
letters... like all the notes on the set of drawings... into text.
<<

I have recently been using www.ScanR.com, which is a free online 
service. I can take a picture of text or drawings with my cell phone 
camera, upload the photo to this service directly from my cell phone. 
The service takes the photo, cleans up the image, translates any text to 
digital text, they will email the result back to my phone, to my desktop 
computer or to anyone I like, or it will fax the result out to any 
numbers I give it, or hold the files at the service for me or any of my 
contacts to download. It works well on pages up to 8x11. (there is not 
built-in "stitch" service to shoot larger pages) I'm using a Nokia n93 
phone, but don't have it set up with phone service, which is too costly. 
The n93 has wifi built into it and is like a little computer so I use 
that where ever there is a wifi connection--works great, skype, etc.

john

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