Lisa,

Bernard suggested ABBYY for OCR and in my experience they are the best 
company to work with from the recognition side.  My previous company OEM'd 
their engine and we had great success with it.

The second part to your question about extracting keywords is possibly a little 
more difficult.  Are you wanting to identify specific keywords such as places, 
times, people or looking for more specific data like account numbers or SSNs?  
Also, are the documents structured (like a form) or unstructured (like a letter 
or contract)?  Would you then put these into the Enterprise Keywords in 
SharePoint, or are you looking to just have the full text available to the search 
engine?

Sorry for all of the questions back, but all of this makes a difference on the 
technologies needed.  Of course OCR is the first step needed regardless.  The 
difference could be just using a recognition server versus needing data 
extraction technologies or even semantic type searching capabilities.  

Be happy to help you more offline too if you'd like.

Chris Caplinger
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