Hi Kerri. I'm not a K1000 expert, but try going to settings then recognition submenu and press enter, tab till you hear "the text is expected to be." Normal is the default. Arrow down once and it will change to degraded. This has worked beautifully for me without changing other scan settings. HTH. Donna _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kerri Kosten Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:16 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] having trouble scanning a book Hi All: I am wanting to scan a book to both read for pleasure and submit to bookshare. The book is called Die for me by Karen Rose. It is a really great thriller about a detective who finds a bunch of buried dead bodies and has to investigate them and then he and this woman Sophie fall in love. It looks really good. My problem is that it is a tiny, mass market paperback book with really thin pages almost like a phonebook. I bought it new so the print should be okay however I can not get it to scan right. I am using Kurzweil 11.02. I have the brightness to 73. have tried using Dymanmic which I use and works great for bigger paperbacks. But, it either gives a poor confidence level or it has a bunch of errors on the pages. Like not junk characters but where it messes up words and such. I have tried placing the book in all kinds of positions on the scanner but it still won't scan right. I am holding it flat as it will go. The only setting that seems to work is Grayscale but I hate to use it because it takes so long to recognize. I also have another book which is already in the collection but I am comparing the scans of these two books. It is called the Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux and it is another big Mass market paperback. The only difference is that it has thicker pages. So, thinking the print was different on the 2 books, I asked a sighted person but they said the print sizes were the same. The only difference between this book and the other one is this book does flatten out a little better on the scanner. However it does fine with Dynamic scanning. So, I was wondering if there was anything I could differently to get Die for me to scan right with Dynamic since The Summerhouse seems to be fine. What is the difference between Grayscale and Dynamic? Is grayscale made more for like thinner paper or something or is there a reason it might be doing better with Die for me then Dynamic is? I know there have been all kinds of books submitted to Bookshare probably mostly paperbacks or the mass market smaller kind so I just wondered what I might be doing wrong. I will use Grayscale if I have to but do not really want to. Thanks so much for your help and sorry this is so long. Kerri