Hi, Julia. Chela is right. Kurzweil can automatically detect text on various backgrounds now. That's a nice improvement in the FineReader engine in Kurzweil 11. Kurzweil is steadily improving their basic scanning features, and I really like their forms recognition feature. So I don't think you'll gain anything by rolling back to an earlier version. Having said that, we have some volunteers producing beautiful scans using Kurzweil 8 and 9. So if you don't have Kurzweil 11, there are people making older software work very nicely. Two of our most prolific volunteers have been using Kurzweil 9, and their scans are nearly perfect. -- Monica Willyard Visit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.