I just looked. I have a setting labeled color scanning and another one labeled white on black. Both can be checked or unchecked and right now they are unchecked which seems to be the default setting. I saw nothing about greyscale. "Philosophers have merely interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Karl Marx The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html table with 2 columns and 6 rows Subj: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning Old Mass Market Paperbacks Date: 5/21/2009 8:30:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table end Hi Roger, I don't use OpenBook, so don't know where to tell you to look for a gray scale setting exactly. It should be in your scanner settings menu. You should have options such as, color, gray scale, dynamic, and static. You may have either some or all of these as options. I scan exclusively using gray scale. And doing this, if the results prove to be some that you like will keep you from having to adjust your scanner brightness every time you switch pages. What gray scale does is adjust itself as needed, essentially. Nope. I have no idea how this is achieved. What I do know is that the results are much, much better, in my experience than any other scanner setting. The recognition time is longer than with other settings, but less long when you take into consideration the amount of time you'd be spending correcting all the mistakes that you get with other settings. Good luck! Happy scanning. Mayrie ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 5:08 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Scanning Old Mass Market Paperbacks Okay, I just subjected one of those recalcitrant pages to the adjustment of contrast remedy. I started at 25 which resulted in my being told that I had a blank page and rescanned it several times adjusting the contrast up in increments of 25 each time. When I got to 175 I got a fairly decent scan. The text was a little unclear at the end of the page, but I may be getting the hang of this. I still want to do a little more experimenting, though, and I probably will not tackle one of these decrepit old books until I have finished proofreading the fairly lengthy one I am proofreading now. "Philosophers have merely interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Karl Marx The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html _ ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav0 0000002) _ ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002)