No Darren it is no different. This really does not matter to someone like myself who is also using speech. The reason I mentioned it was because if you were sending e-mails to people who are not using screen readers then they would not have much chance of reading it. Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- From: Darren Brewer To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:32 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Scanner for OCR ing textbooks Hi Eleanor Is this better? The reason it was blacked out is because I have my colours set to high contrast and so if I send an email with the colours set this way the message body is black and so is the text. I should have changed the colours to windows classic before sending, bit lazy of me. sorry about that. Regards cDarren. ----- Original Message ----- From: Eleanor Burke To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:21 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Scanner for OCR ing textbooks Hi Daren I do not know about the scanner but cannot read your e-mail visually, thankfully I have speech also. Why is it blacked-out? When I hit the Reply, it now seems that mine is blacked-out too. No doubt someone will tells us why. Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- From: Darren Brewer To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:14 PM Subject: [access-uk] Scanner for OCR ing textbooks Hi All I'm thinking of buying a flat bed scanner and want one that will obviously perform OCR, but not be too expensive. I remember the opticbook 3600 being mentioned quite a few times on here and our very own Mr Nut saying how good it performs. Obviously an edge scanner would be the best option, but I don't think there are any in my price range which is currently a few hundred pounds. After reading the reviews for the opticbook it sounds like it performs reasonably well and can apparently cope with shadowing that occurs near the spine. So it sounds like it will suffice for scanning in text books. If there is anyone on the list who owns an opticbook then your comments would be most welcome, as at the moment it sounds like a good investment. However if you know of an alternative that performs as well or better then I would love to hear about it. Cheers Darren. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter We are a community of 5.5 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 475 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message