Patti, I believe this was suggested before, but have you cleaned your scanner glass lately? I was surprised at the differences between a freshly cleaned glass and a not so clean one. Mine a few weeks ago began to scan quite badly and I guessed correctly that there was something on the glass. Jake ----- Original Message ----- From: Patti Johnson To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:45 PM 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.0/50 - Release Date: 7/16/2005