This may not be of any use in your situation, Bud, since I don't know whether you are blind or sighted or how you know what the preface looks like -- but I've run into similar situations, mostly with the book covers (and bookshare had said they like, if it's possible, to have the front and back covers and the parts that fold into the book -- which I've been mistakenly calling fly leafs all year). When I tried to scan and convert the pages not only did they not show up but sometimes it caused my scanner or the OCR to crash. Anyway, I end up typing the information and inserting into the appropriate place in the book. Cindy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover