The OCR Software ReadIris Pro 9 from Iris (http://www.irislink.com/) has an Apple Event interface, but I haven't yet tried it.
A part of the AppleScript dictionary : ======================== Readiris Suite: Terms pertaining to Readiris analyze: Analyze a page of the document analyze reference -- the page to be analyzed auto recognize: Automatically recognize a list of documents auto recognize reference -- list of documents to open deskew: Deskew a page of the document deskew reference -- the page to deskew extract business cards: Extract business cards from a page of the document extract business cards recognize: Recognize a document recognize reference -- the object to be recognized [saving to file specification] -- specifies the file to save the output to rotate: Rotate a page of the document rotate reference -- the page to rotate by clock90/anticlock90/clock180 -- the angle by which to rotate scan: Scan a set of pages into the document scan reference -- the document to scan the page(s) into shift: Shift a page in the document shift reference -- the page to shift to small integer -- the target position (index) tune up: Tune up a page of the document tune up reference -- the page to tune up smoothing boolean -- smooth image? contrast small integer -- the contrast level despeckling small integer -- the despeckling level =========================== -- Laurent _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig