Hi Rik, I have found in general that Scansoft cleans up the pictures a little better. Another thing I have found is the words can often be a part of the picture so they will get recognized when the picture is scanned. Now on the other side of things Finereader does keep things in a little better order than Scansoft does. I have only worked with Kurzweil so I am not sure which OCR software comes with Openbook. Katie Hill Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx You, who are thirsty, come hither: if, by chance, the fountain fails, The goddess has, by degrees, prepared the everlasting waters. translation by fulcanelli of an inscription on the statue of maitre plerre, which stood on the parvis of Notre-Dame-de-Paris until its removal in 1748 -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rik James Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:56 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Any tips for scanning pages with photo images? Any tips for scanning pages with photo images? When I scan pages that have photo images, I get lots and lots of H^^ J^^ and so on like that. The text will be in the middle of sentences and or off to itself, depending. So that means lots of editing, if indeed I decide it is worth continuing. I try to scan a lot of CD booklets and things with small distances between margins, and of course these are problematic, too. I have been meaning to ask to see if anyone has a particular technique or setting adjustment that they have used to improve the scanning. I imagine a certain amount is unavoidable. But whatever there might be to reduce it, well, I figure it can't hurt to ask, right? I'm using OpenBook 7.02. Thanks. Rik To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.