Shelley, there are many possible causes to the described problem, including dust particles on the scanning surface, or specs of food and other matter on the book. Have you tried speckle removal. Have you optimized recognition, either manually or automatically? Have you tried 400DPI grayscale? Guido Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html "Shelley L. Rhodes" <rhod3021@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 05/18/2004 06:22 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Kurzweil inserting characters O.k. I am stumped. I was editing the Black Stallion Mystery, and this is the forth book in this series Kurzweil has done this to..n Is it common to put random characters in the middles of words. The entire word was still there, but with the little editions. Thanks for any comments. Examples were faister, oiff, and the like. with random characters added. Not sure if it is the print, as two were paperbacks and one a hard cover. Very usual. I am using Fine Reader and Kurzweil version 8. Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden rhod3021@xxxxxxxxxxxx "One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time" ~ Carl Sagan