Amazon has started a catalog and menu search which I’ve found to be very similar to Google’s catalog search. Actual printed catalogs and menus are scanned in and the text is searchable. I’m not finding the menu search very practical yet, since it is currently full of ritzy places, but I suppose that could change as more are added. It would be most useful to me if it had local takeout and pizza places, not expensive restaurants who already have their own websites. A friend mentioned that a personal scan and search mechanism would be very helpful to him. Then he could have all the pieces of paper that he has accumulated digitized and catalogued for search. He was willing to pay good bucks for this too. Perhaps a service could be created where customers used their own scanners and then sent or uploaded the results to an online service for character recognition and indexing for search. The customer could log in and search their own set of documents as needed. Anyone done this already? I’m writing up the patent right now.