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.

Tell your friend "Google is your friend".

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ocr+software++japanese&btnG=Search
  returns

It shows one link in Jim's homepage,

<quote>
Jim Breen's Japanese Page
 > They also had the Kanjiscan Japanese OCR system. ... It is part of a family of Chinese and Japanese software 
developed by HongBo Ni. ...
www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html -
</quote>

link is http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html but for this intance,
I get  error message of "request timed out". :(

muchan