Hi Patti, Sometimes junk in a book can be due to something other than the page being seen by the scanner. Does your book have a dust jacket? Or perhaps could it have writing on the inside of the front cover? I've seen books where the pages don't fold over completely and part of the text from those pages can bee seen, which results in junk characters. I generally would take a post it note or two and put them in the front to "hide" that text from the scanner. As for changing settings. Contrast in OpenBook can be helpful to fiddle with it sometimes. You can try switching from 300 dpi resolution to 400. If you're brave, try using Color Scanning. Do you have despeckle turned on? That might help eliminate some junk. Let me know what you've tried and if any of this helps, Jake----- Original Message ----- From: Patti Johnson To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 5:46 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Scanning How do you know what to change your settings to when scanning a book? I have a book that has an incredible amount of junk in it, and I have no idea how to get rid of these errors. If you don't know what kind of page it is, dark or light, how do you know what to change settings to? I tried changing some of the settings but it is making no 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.11/44 - Release Date: 7/8/2005