Patti, I had the same probably when I scanned. It seems to be the nature of the beast. They always come at the ends of lines, so maybe the scanner doesn't want to stop putting in text and so creates some (smile). Also, my OCR puts the paragraph symbol -- return?-- at the end of every line, so when I read it over -- I always pre-validated before submitting-- I remove them by hand as I read. It's become quite automatic to remove the junk--by globally replacing with nothing if I can and by deleting by hand otherwise--and doesn't disturb my reading. Cindy --- Patti Johnson <razz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I scanned a book yesterday, took me nearly 12 hours, > it was about 300 pages. I played with the settings, > I held the book down, and discovered a couple > things. First, my arms hurt today, grin! Second, > if I scan with color scan, it takes a little longer, > but there are no words missing. If I remove color > scan and do it the other way, there are words > missing, even with holding the book down. In spite > of all I couldand did try, there were incredible > amounts of asterisks and greater-than signs and all > kinds of things on the pages, some pages worse than > others, and I suspect the pages that had pictures > were the worst. But, as I listened, I could > understand the majority of the text. I do not > understand this at all, I guess I never will. My > Braille Lite is being repaired, so I have no > display; but when I get it back I will go in and re > read this book and take out all those strange > symbols that I can. I may or may not submit this > book, I haven't decided. But I just wanted to tell > you my experience in scanning it. I guess I just > don't get how a printed book can have so many errors > in it and why the software doesn't dismiss them. I > know I don't have the best scanner in the world, but > it does make me wonder if it would make any > difference. > Patti > > Me and my guide dog; > He does a good job, > He keeps me safe > So life is just great > For me and my guide dog. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com