Lots. They are both critical components. If you are blind, the program that is in most cases easiest to use and is likely to give high results is Kurzweil 1000. Some of the best scanners are made by EPSON: 3170 and 1660 if you can still find one. Or current 4180, a little slower but apparently quite strong. Guido Guido Dante Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.ibm.com/able "Gisela Vazquez" <gvazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/13/2004 01:55 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] scanning process? Re: Re: identifying books from download list how much does the scannar and the program being used impact the scan?