I want to get a series of bridge hands into the computer. My thought is to make up a form and then have the players write into the character boxes the hands. The card values would be only the characters AKQJT98765432. Example: North Spades A Q T 5 Hearts T 8 7 Diamonds Q T 4 3 2 Clubs 8 and so on... Just the part to the right would be filled in by hand. My problem is to put together a program that can start the scanner, read in a page, look at the specific boxes where the characters can be entered and then decide which of the above characters is in the box (best match). I've got some leeway here in that all the above characters must be present 4 times (4 suits) so I could throw out a debatable character if it was matched with one of higher quality. My question here is can anyone suggest where I can look for examples of text recognition software callable from a controlling program. The standard search for text recognition software produces Xerox's Textbridge or Omnipage Pro. These are standalone programs that come out with Word files. I want something more primitive than this so that my program can control the whole thing. Edward E.L. Mitchell (508)771-0806 500 Ocean St., Unit 134, Hyannis, MA 02601

I entered a comment on Chris Maunder's Autocompleting Combo box which was duly sent but then it came back with the header: From: MailServer@codeproject.com Subject: Returned Mail- User Not Found (cmaunderf@mail.com) The body contained the following: ======================== Returned Mail Follows: ======================== From: emitchell@ieee.org To: cmaunderf@mail.com Subject: [CodeProject] GetCurSel() for the CComboBox is returns 2 different values on consecutive calls Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:23:02 -0400 X-Mailer: Dundas Mailer Control 1.0 Organization: the Code Project - http://www.codeproject.com Message-ID: 2001103134328484VHXVAPFCHUWG@codeproject.com ... Can someone say if the message was sent or is there something that I should change. Ed Edward E.L. MItchell Pharsight Corp. (508)771-0806 500 Ocean St., Unit 134, Hyannis, MA 02601