Shelley, If what your friend has is an hp4c skuzzy scanner he has a priceless treasure and should guard it with his life! Those scanners are legal-sized, which are very hard to find since the more recently-produced ones are designed for photo-scanning and not OCR. These old ones are fast, and they make really good images for OCR. If he or you can get it set up it will be worth the effort. Kellie