John has some interesting points.

Now in the past, and no doubt in the future
, I have had to scan electoral registers (UK) - I've used TextBridge v9 for this into Access. Unfortunately there is no alternative to manual corrections.

On text one of the problems with T'Bridge 9 is that line heights and fonts or not consistant. As most of my bulk scanning for text ends up sas HTML I find that it is easist to paste the text into a table produced with "Hotmetal", this eases manipulation of font, sise, structure etc, and formate and edit from this.

Judge for yer selves, the following Click 'Ere was the result of that process on a very long legal document, in this case faxed then photocopied.

Just my thoughts,

Gareth