Ahem, unfortunately the recognition confidence index is not a quality index, but rather a 'self-delusion' index. It only indicates that the OCR engine did or did not spend a lot of energy recognizing. A better quality rating is found in the 'ranked spelling' dialogue of K1K. Guido 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 Duane Iverson Sent by: 05/09/2004 11:03 PM Please respond to bookshare-discuss To <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bookshare-discuss] You can get Kurzweil to watch! Kurzweil 8 has a setting that allow you to set a percentage that if the quallity of a scan falls below the number, you are alerted as you scan. I find that you can set the system to scan and read and if thge percentage is set to 98 oir better, the system tells you if you have a relatively poor quality scan. This saves time in the long run since you don't have to check scans that pass the quallity test.