Hi Donna, I didn't have the slow down problen with FR8, in fact I was amazed at how fast it was, especially compared to omnipro 15. It certainly was as fast for me as FR7 is, but as you know with FR7 I don't have the continuous section breaks. I don't know why they should be there and neither does Abbyy. Found my files that seemed to have been eaten although it seems I have to recover them, shouldn't have to do that!Well we shall see what happenens when I chat with tech suport Monday. Good luck with your testing and please keep me up with what you find out. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Donna Smith To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 4:31 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] More FineReader testing Hello to those of you who are playing around with FineReader. I currently own FR Professional version 7.0, but am testing version 8.0 on a trial basis. I've started scanning a book tonight, and can't figure out why it is scanning so incredibly slowly. I think I'm using the same settings I use with FR7, but the lapse between pages is interminable, and I don't even have the box checked to pause between pages! Usually, I check this box and tell it to pause for 5 seconds. Any ideas? The resulting scan is good except for treating the headings like columns and ending it with a section break continuous. The text of the book is beautiful, though. Of course, I get beautiful text with FR7 without the other problems, so if this doesn't get better soon, I will be saving myself the cost of the upgrade. I'm very interested to hear what others are experiencing. Peace and Hope, Donna