[nekokami]

Thanks, Paul -- this is very helpful. I'm looking at scanning documents of my own that I've lost the electronic originals for, and some journal articles provided by instructors for courses I've taken. (In some cases I have these as PDF, but it's a "scanned" non-searchable PDF-- I'd like to be able to copy snippets of text to a research database, with the citation -- it's dissertation proposal time!) I can scare up a copy of Acrobat here at work to test on before I decide whether to buy a copy, but I've been considering buying it for a while now for other reasons anyway. I was just wondering if I would also then have to purchase Readiris or something to do the OCR -- hopefully Acrobat will do the trick.