Hi- Susan and I have been using scanner for at least a half-dozen yeqars, and we wouldn't be without them. The earliest ones we used were hand-held models, which were a major pain (though they beat typing); the full-page flat bed scanners (we both use UMax) are a joy. The conversion to text (OCR) programs supplied with the scanners work fine for lyrics; about the only problems we've encountered is with old books and sheet music- the software thinks that a letter is a pattern surrounded by blank space, so that broken text, or run-together letters aren't recognized. Unless the document being scanned is really bad, that's not a major problem.