As far as I know K is only product with automatic optimization. Many times though on K1000 v9.0, setting reco engine to Fine Engine, grayscale, and 400DPI will exceed results of any automatic optimization. Guido Guido Dante Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.ibm.com/able "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/13/2004 02:14 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: scanning Re: Re: plesure reading quality&quality standards Try Kurzweil's trade-in policy. You will end up with a product which seems to have very good tools. I do not think Open Book has the optimize feature for instance. At 02:39 PM 12/13/2004, you wrote: >Which is really cool. Kurzweil is the only company I know that has this >advantage. With FS you have to "pay for" all the upgrades in-between. > >don't I know it! i'm using openbook5 and can't afford to upgrade right >now. The prices are killer! I'm thinking of a way to justify it to my >rehab agency...az i'm doing some private tutoring and need to scan books I >need the most up to date software. What do you all think? I know I will >not get the kurzweil bc I havve openbook. sigh. >on scanning, tips for using openbook and getting the best scan? >gisela >