Don't know what happened in my recent post as not all text got transmitted. I tried in vane to reply to Everett off list but of course the Insert + Shift + R keystroke still does not work. DJM Hi Everett, I found your post very helpful and instructive concerning Scanners and OCR. I am using JAWS 9 and XP Home with an old HP scanner and a demo of Open Book. Does the ABBEY Finereader product have its own speech or can it use JAWS? A quick search for the Fujitsu Scansnap S500 showed a $349 price after a $50 rebate until 30 September from Tiger Direct, FWIW. This combination of OCR with the Fujitsu scanner sounds like a great solution to me as I find the Open Book product insanely over priced for my humble needs. Thanks again for your help. Mitch -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx