Elizabeth, here are the steps I use to clean a book: 1. Scanning: 2. Page Integrity Check: Chapter header check Page header check: Remove tab chars at beginning of lines: Remove tabs at end of lines: Remove junk chars: Check for odd combinations of digit 1, like 111 instead of "I'll": Remove/fix single alphabetic words: Spell check: Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 04/15/2004 08:16 AM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: just submitted If you ever get the chance, would you be interested in posting a list of steps you take with Kurzweil after a scan. I know they have lots of tools, some of which I use often. A lot of what I do though is simply correcting while reading on a braillenote. If I could first use tools from Kurzweil I could do that to a .rtf book and save myself some hand editing. Thanks. E. At 02:20 AM 4/15/2004, you wrote: > I am getting good with Kurzweil now and I cleaned it up >very easily. > >Liz, starting to scan #5 out of 6! > >Liz Halperin >Seattle, WA >lizzers@xxxxxxxxxxx