Hi, Patti, Just a question, which scanning software do you use? There's good news regrding your problem scanning your book if you use K1000. In the new upgrade that's coming soon, the software will remove many of the kind of errors you are talking about that are caused by shadows on the margines of the pages. It's not that the books have a lot of errors in them, it's caused by shadows in some way. It's not your fault, and it sounds like you have done a good job scanning. One suggestion is to search for those characters in the document and eliminate them, and if you're sure they aren't part of the text you could also do search and replace and replace them with nothing or with a space. Then, whey you're finished you can go back through and do a search and replace for multiple spaces. Just some suggestions, and feel free to ask questions if you need more help! After you've worked so hard on your book, might as well try submitting it, too! Charlene -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patti Johnson Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 7:46 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Scanning I scanned a book yesterday, took me nearly 12 hours, it was about 300 pages. I played with the settings, I held the book down, and discovered a couple things. First, my arms hurt today, grin! Second, if I scan with color scan, it takes a little longer, but there are no words missing. If I remove color scan and do it the other way, there are words missing, even with holding the book down. In spite of all I couldand did try, there were incredible amounts of asterisks and greater-than signs and all kinds of things on the pages, some pages worse than others, and I suspect the pages that had pictures were the worst. But, as I listened, I could understand the majority of the text. I do not understand this at all, I guess I never will. My Braille Lite is being repaired, so I have no display; but when I get it back I will go in and re read this book and take out all those strange symbols that I can. I may or may not submit this book, I haven't decided. But I just wanted to tell you my experience in scanning it. I guess I just don't get how a printed book can have so many errors in it and why the software doesn't dismiss them. I know I don't have the best scanner in the world, but it does make me wonder if it would make any difference. Patti Me and my guide dog; He does a good job, He keeps me safe So life is just great For me and my guide dog.