On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:26:44 -0700, Declan Murphy wrote:

> A question for the brain's trust. I've just been asked "do you know of
> any OCR software that works well with Japanese?", but haven't used any
> OCR software period. Any suggestions please.

I am using Finereader 9 Professional. I am very satisfied with the 
results (scanning + ocr of old japanese car brochures), however you 
scanner should be at least able to scan 600 (real, not interpolated) dpi. 

Cheers,

Daniel