Hi Joel, It's hard to believe that I really got you, but I wonder what an OCR program would do with brail. Although my vision is almost 20/20, my PC reads to me with a program named "Openbook Unbound" and the Keynote Gold speech synthasizer. The progam does superbly when it sees san serrifed type, but it can't cope with anything handwritten. Before anyone complains, Glynn perhaps, that I'm going off our usual topic, I better relate this letter to Linux and C programming. Darn! I'm stumped. Sorry folks. Best wishes, Bill