Thank you for the quick reply Scott.
Checked that out and ArcScan only handles paper maps with line work - great program though. We do a lot of real estate transactions where the legal descriptions must be thoroughly scrutinized.
I'm talking about an OCR program that reads any format text document, recognizes and extracts the bearing/distance/curve values, writes the calls to a table, and opens a dialogue window displaying the values within the editor environment. Then (in my case) select a POB from a PLS point layer and click the successive traverse lines from the dialogue table until closure. Really simple and easy to use, rather than 20 mins to setup and COGO a simple parcel or days to draw out a subdivision, this reduced the same type tasks to a few minutes or a few hours respectively. I'm really surprised that this is not a readily available tool within ArcGIS.
