Hi Harpy, yes as Jon indicated just about any scanner will work with SharpEye because all it has to do is create a .bmp or .tif (Black and White) file. The techo words are that the scanner must be TWAIN compatible, the main issue being that some older scanners may not be. I suspect that just about all scanners designed for the mass market are compatible.

I usually scan at either 150 or 300 dpi - anything higher than that and you are usually just slowing down the process for little further benefit.

The image file you save MUST be B&W, not colour nor shades of grey. The software which comes with your scanner determines that and has nothing to do with SharpEye or other OCR programs. If there isn't a B&W option it may be labelled as the 'Text Save' option. It took me a while to get this simple crucial step right - once I did this my success rate with SharpEye increased dramatically.

My HP scanner has some fancy software which allows you to crop out any extraneous stuff like illustrations from your image before you save it. Don't fret too much if your scanner software is more basic and lacks this feature. SharpEye and other OCR programs have this facility when you open the image file - it cuts down on processing time a whole lot.

Regards for now, John