I'm doing a search for OCR software that handles Arabic and Farsi (Persian) and supports Unicode. Windows and/or OS X. So far I've come up with: Verus http://aramedia.com/ndverus.htm Arabic, Farsi/Persian, Dari, Pashto with supported for embedded English and French. With TIF, PDF, PNG, JPEG. Output: Text, RTF and PDF with Hidden Text formats. Unicode output. Standard: $1,295.95 -- Don't have the name yet, will be up on http://www.worldlanguage.com/ tomorrow, ID: 110084 Arabic, Persian-Farsi, Pashto, English, French, Dari. Afghanistan. $2,499.95. -- http://www.101language.com/ Awaiting email response if they carry such software. Readiris Pro 11 Middle-East. $499.00 http://www.irislink.com/c2-561/Readiris-Pro-11-Middle-East-Edition- OCR-Software.aspx -- Any experience with Arabic and Persian OCR? Thanks. Bob Majors Language Learning Center University of Washington SEATTLE WA http://depts.washington.edu/llc/ *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************