bill - 4:46 am on May 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

Have you looked into Adobe Capture? They had a pretty good system for scanning to PDF and you didn't end up with lots of image files...text translated to text and the OCR wasn't too bad from what I recall. I haven't used Capture for several years, but I did a big batch of catalogs filled with text and images and remember that the cleanup wan't too bad once I tweaked my preferences.