<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:44 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I had two cram-full filing cabinets scanned, but never used any of the scanned materials because I had no way to index any of it. What we need is some way to read through all that material, some of which was hand-written, and create searchable files.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div> The phrase you want to search on is "optical character<br>recognition", or just "OCR". There are many solutions<br>out there, some of them free, some of them pretty high<br>
quality. There are probably some that are both.<br></div></div></div></div>