Use Scansoft instead of Fine Reader as your OCR engine. Scansoft munches long dashes, and puts spaces in words, but at least for me, no extra junk. Fine reader on the other hand, usually but doesn't always keep words intact, and keeps m dashes as they are called, but puts junk in. So the question is of course. Which is worse. 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: "Bud Schwab" <budschwab@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <k1000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 2:30 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] unwanted letters on scanned page Hi guys and gals, I know this has been discussed before but I just thought somebody might have some further input on the subject. When scanning a book there often are extra letters at the bottom and sometimes the top of the page. I am using an Epson 3170 scanner and version 9 of k1000. I have tried different programs, regular scan, fast scan, and whatever the third one is, perfect scan or something like that, and it doesn't seem to make much difference. It really slows down scanning a book when I have to stop and delete all those extra characters. Any other ideas? Thanks. Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.4/57 - Release Date: 7/22/2005