HI Mary I'm using an Acer Scan 2 Web Scanner 4300U 3300U, I've seen the scanners that are best with Kurzweil but mine wasn't listed in the useful or the ones we should avoid at the website. And yes 128MB are a meager memory, I'll get an upgrade as soon as I can. K3000 uses expervision and Fine Reader, the thing is I wanted to post my experiences because I've seen through the threads in the list that people with more powerful computers are having problems with Kurzweil like mine. My computer has minimums minimums requirements to run those programs so I wanted to share to make a comparison with Kurzweil. Kurzweil 3000 is alike K1000 but it has some feauters like spell the word, pronunciation but is limited in dictionaries you can use. I have ABBY Fine Reader 7.0 Professional and when you need a dictionary for spell checking you can go to the Abby site and download it. Also the editing of the underlying text is troublesome in that you get broken words merged words and the like but I would like to have a mentor in Kurzweil to teach me more a hands on experience. In general the program is beautiful in spite of its quirkiness, definitely a jewel. Very truly yours Dilsia From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 17:40:12 -0500 Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Kurzweil and crashes and TTS Regarding the problem of the scans not coming out well with the engines provided for K3000, you will doubtless have to make adjustments, as you would for any ocr program, omnipage or whatever. I don't use K3000, so I can't help you with regard to where you go in the program to do the adjusting. But these are the same engines used in K1000, and I've got hundreds of scanned books that testify to the over all excellent quality they can produce.If K3000 is like K1000, there are definitely scanners that it won't work well with. They have lists on the kurzweiledu site, although they're not exhaustive. What scanner are you using? 128mb of ram isn't very much for an xp system running an ocr program with software speech, especially if you also had other programs open simultaneously, so that might be the source of some of your issues. there are also issues with ibm via voice, depending on what other speech engines you may have active on your system. The usual suspect is eloquence. And apparently, if yo have sapi3 on the system, you may also have problems when trying to use via voice. Regarding dictionaries, there is no large Spanish or other foreign language dictionary provided. But I'm sure you can set K1000 to recognize various languages. Which ones depends on which ocr engine you use. Spanish is definitely one of them. Again, since I don't use the program, I don't know where to tell you to find the settings in K3000, but I'm sure its there somewhere. Mary The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again. -- Alan Patton, Cry the Beloved Country, Scribner Paperback Fiction The most difficult part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. -- Arch Ward, Promoter and sports editor Better twice measured than once wrong. -- Danish Proverb