When you scan in a document, it scans in the text as a graphic. Abby reads the image and converts the imange into text and puts it in a word doc or you can c/c/p it into another app. It is a Optical Charicter Recigntion (OCR) program -----Original Message----- From: pcworks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pcworks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harold B. Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 10:44 PM To: PC Works_LIST Subject: [PCWorks] Abbyy FineReader Hello again ... My printer (a Lexmark 3300) besides printing and copying, is also a scanner. I also have pre-installed in my Compaq Windows XP system a program called "Abbyy FineReader 6.0 Sprint Plus" As far as I can see, it uses my Lexmark scanning program for scanning and can also pick up any jpg file in my system. Am I missing something meaning, what does this Abbyy program do that my Lexmark doesn't do? --- Harold ========================= The list's FAQ's can be seen by sending an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with FAQ in the subject line. To unsubscribe, subscribe, set Digest or Vacation to on or off, go to //www.freelists.org/list/pcworks . You can also send an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with Unsubscribe in the subject line. Your member list settings can be found at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi/l=pcworks . Once logged in, you have access to numerous other email options. The list archives are located at //www.freelists.org/archives/pcworks/ . All email posted to the list will be placed there in the event anyone needs to look for previous posts. -zxdjhu-