Gary, as I recall the Bookshare staff is using the latest Omnipage and ABBYY recognition products. Yes, the engines are newer than the ones in OpenBook and k1K, but not earthshatteringly so. 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 "Gary Wunder" <gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 05/07/2004 12:49 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To "Bookshare Volunteers" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Scanning Tell me more about Bookshare's ability to scan. Do they have any better luck with older books than we do? What is the software they use? I assume one just sends them a book, they rip it apart and scan it, and then put it up for validation? Gary Wunder gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx