A lot! If you use a poor quality scanner and a poor OCR package like let's say fine reader 4 or say scansoft version maybe 3 smile, you are obviously going to get worse material naturally as the program is not as advanced as say fine reader 7 or scansoft 12 would be. Improvements are just that. Improvements. I know for me, I have to do less work with version 9 than I did with version 8 of Kurzweil because the OCR engine is updated. Same for the time I discovered the difference between Fine Reader and RTK which happened in let me think Version 7. Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Advisory Council www.guidedogs.com The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. -- Vance Havner ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gisela Vazquez" <gvazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 2:55 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] scanning process? Re: Re: identifying books from download list how much does the scannar and the program being used impact the scan?