Should have mentioned it came with a cd that had ABBYY Finereader Sprint 9.0 program on it. This program can take text off a picture (eg a page in a book)and produces it as a excel document.Not tried the word or pdf conversion
I'm tempted. Looks like you can scan text then add to or change in a word document. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4yTOQm3fnk Derek, what book is the text from about Birkenhead Brewery.